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complexity of administrative provisions and obscured by much 
unwritten history, the work of the Secretary is particularly 
onerous and calls for the utmost degree of efficiency and accuracy. 
Mr. Hackforth has brought to our guidance and has held ever 
ready at our disposal an intimate and highly technical knowledge 
of the intricacies and the development of Health Insurance law 
and procedure ; and our task has been materially lightened by the 
great ability and exactitude with which he has handled, collated 
and amplified the immense volume of written and printed matter 
submitted to us. Throughout all our inquiries we have been 
greatly indebted to Mr. Hackforth and Mr. Peck for their unfail- 
ing courtesy, their resourcefulness, and their readiness on all 
occasions to comply with the many demands made upon their 
time and their knowledge. 
We also acknowledge our obligations to the members of the 
staff of the Ministry of Health, the Scottish Board of Health, 
and the Government Actuary’s Department, who have prepared 
material for our use. In particular we desire to express our 
indebtedness to the anonymous and unrecorded authors and com- 
pilers of the ‘ Summary of the Law and Administration of 
National Health Insurance *’ which has been printed as Part I 
of the Appendix to the Minutes of Evidence taken before us— 
a work which has not only been throughout of incalculable 
assistance to us, but will also, as we anticipate, afford the 
greatest enlightenment to all independent inquirers in this 
comparatively neglected field of social study and research. 
All which we humbly submit for Your Majesty’s 
gracious consideration. 
(Signed) 
si 
LAWRENCE OF KINGSGATE (Chairman). 
JOHN ANDERSON. 
HuMmPHRY ROLLESTON. 
ArrreED W. WATSON. 
ARTHUR WORLEY. 
ANDREW R. DUNCAN.* 
ARTHUR DIGBY BESANT. 
ALEXANDER (FRAY.* 
WILLIAM JONES. 
E. HackrorrH (Secretary). 
J. W. Puck (Assistant Secretary). 
22nd February, 1926. 
© Signatures subject to the Reservation which is appended.