§ DR. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he will state what steps were taken by the War Office to provide means for the application of the serum test (Widal's method) to the diagnosis of doubtful cases of enteric fever in general hospitals in South Africa; whether he is aware that this means of making an early diagnosis is largely used by hospitals and local sanitary authorities; and whether he will take immediate steps to provide every general hospital in South Africa with the skilled assistance and simple appliances necessary in those cases in which such provision has not yet been made.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMNo special steps have been taken beyond the general training of medical officers in this method of diagnosis. The test is being applied in South Africa, and Army medical officers are quite capable of carrying it out.