§ Dr. Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases during the past 12 months admitted to Walton Hall Maternity Hospital, near Wakefield, were patients resident in the Goole postal district; and how far that hospital is from the centre of the town of Goole.
§ Mr. AlisonThe lease of the Walton Hall Maternity Hospital was terminated in 1967. Maternity patients from Goole requiring specialist care are admitted to Manygates Hospital, Wakefield, which is 29 miles from Goole; and this is expected to continue until the maternity unit now being built at the Pontefract General Hospital is opened.