§ MR. AUSTIN TAYLOR (Liverpool, East Toxteth)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the Report of Dr. Reece on the Liverpool smallpox hospitals is based entirely on spot maps, and that the medical officer of the Local Government Board has stated that other sources of infection ought to be taken into consideration; and whether, seeing that the Fazakerley Hospital, condemned in the Report of Dr. Reece, received the approval of three of the Board's inspectors, he will take steps to withdraw the Report in question in view of the above facts.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) Dr. Reece's Report sets out the facts with regard to the incidence of smallpox in the neighbourhood of the three hospitals referred to in it, and these facts are illustrated by means of the spot maps annexed to the Report. He has stated the circumstances in relation to the Fazakerley Hospital, but he has not condemned it, and I sec no sufficient reason for withdrawing his Report as suggested. I may add that the medical officer of the Local Government Board has not expressed any opinion in explanation of the facts recorded by Dr. Reece.