HC Deb 24 May 1905 vol 146 c1230
MR. LEVY (Leicestershire, Loughborough)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how many of the alien immigrants who arrived in London during March and April were reported by the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London to be suffering from infectious or contagious diseases; and what were the diseases of the immigrants so reported.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I am informed, on making inquiry of the authorities of the City of London, that the following cases of alien immigrants suffering from infectious or contagious diseases wore reported by the Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London during March and April:—

March One case Erysipelas.
April Five cases 1 Chicken pox.
1 Measles.
3 Enteric fever.