SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that Professor Wright, of Netley, has stated, as the results of inoculation for enteric fever in one regiment, that the incidence in the inoculated was 0.55 and the death rate 0.27 per cent., while in the uninoculated it was 6.14 and 3.35 percent, respectively; and whether he can inform the House of the results of inoculation for typhoid or enteric fever among the forces serving in South Africa.
LORD STANLEYThe statement of Professor Wright referred to the official statistics from India for the 15th Hussars. There are no statistics available for the forces in South Africa. It will not, I fear, be possible to go into them properly until the war is over. The pressure on our medical officers for returns of various descriptions is a heavy addition to their pressing duties.