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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 March 1947.

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Photo of Mr Wilfrid Burke Mr Wilfrid Burke , Burnley 12:00, 19 March 1947

It is an expenditure of labour, and, on the face of it, it does seem rather unwise, but, if there is a doctor or some other person in urgent need, and another person happens to get a telephone simply because he is a new tenant of a house, that would constitute unfairness to the doctor.