§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If any case of cholera has been reported as having occurred on board any ship bound from any Indian Port to Suez within two or three months preceding the outbreak at Damietta?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICENo, Sir. No case of this nature has been reported.
§ MR. MACFARLANEHas it come within the noble Lord's knowledge that any person has ever been attacked by cholera after having undergone the quarantine of a 12 days' voyage before reaching the place?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEI cannot answer that Question without further inquiry of gentlemen on the spot.