Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 29 March 1939.
Major Abraham Lyons
, Leicester East
Is it the fact that in January, 1939, there were something like 70,000 persons in this island on public relief, as against the total in January, 1938, of 52,000, and that the Commissioner for Public Health has estimated a figure even greater than that? If the right hon. Gentleman has no information about the complete lack of hospital facilities, will he be good enough to make inquiries forthwith?