Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I will give the facts, and I think the right hon. Gentleman will find out that what I have said is right, because my information comes from a very reliable person, a very safe person, so cautious that he declined to give me all the information because he thought he might get into trouble with the Ministry of Health. I could see by his very evasiveness that something was wrong, and I knew that...
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: If you were a surgeon would you not consider it desirable to try to straighten a very rickety limb?
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I went out of my way to make a special point that it was not the surgical or the medical skill that I was criticising but that the staff were doing their work in spite of, and not because of, the bad administration and appointments.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I should like to know where the hon. Lady gets the figures, because, according to the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Rehabilitation, there were actually in existence at the time of the report 59 hospitals with organised departments while 116 had partially organised departments. Therefore, out of 1,000 voluntary hospitals 59 had fracture clinics.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I asked the Minister to tell me how many rehabilitation centres are now in existence.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: The figures my hon. Friend has given are of fracture clinics, but I am referring to rehabilitation centres.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I do, sincerely.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: Pernicious anaemia is primary anaemia, not secondary anaemia.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I am sorry that my first speech on my return to the House should deal with a medical matter, because it is very difficult for a medical man to speak to a lay audience, or to a Committee consisting of lay Members, on medical matters.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: Just as the Member does when he speak on land values. The speech to which we have just listened was quite unworthy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was ribald, ironical and cynical about a great profession whose services the right hon. Gentleman may need at any time. We have to-night heard some of the most extraordinary statements from all sides of the Committee. We have, for example,...
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: The hon. Member also mentioned the treatment of secondary anaemia by certain organic substances, including liver.
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: I apologise if I made a mistake in interpreting the hon. Member, bat I thought he referred to secondary anaemia being treated by certain organic substances, including liver. We also heard the hon. Member for Swindon (Mr. Wakefield) talking about the continuous administration of paraffin. But in medicine we try, unlike the law, to speak a little carefully, with some regard to meticulous...
Dr Hyacinth Morgan: Does not the right hon. and gallant Gentleman think that this personal baiting of a fine artiste is quite petty and unworthy of the traditions of this House?
