§ MR. YERBURGH (Chester)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether 1372 he will state the number of men invalided from Malta fever annually for the tern years from 1895 to 1905; and whether any medical inquiry into the cause of Malta fever has been instituted.
(Answered by Mr. Pretyman.) A. Committee, including representatives of the Navy, Army, and Colonial Services, has been making inquiry since June, 1904, into the causation and life history of Malta fever, under the directions and auspices of the Royal Society. Much valuable information has been gained and has been published in interim Reports, which hold out strong hopes of this fever being in the future more successfully grappled with than in the past. The number of men invalided is as follows:—
| Year. | Number of Invalids |
| †1897 | 191 |
| 1898 | 149 |
| 1899 | 68 |
| 1900 | 188 |
| 1901 | 163 |
| 1902 | 250 |
| 1903 | 209 |
| 1904 | 191 |
| 1905 | (Return not yet complete.) |