§ MR. LUPTON (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, with reference to the entry in the Registrar-General's 67th Report for 1904 of 104 deaths from chicken-pox, whether he 1417 will order the transfer of the majority of these cases from the heading of chicken-pox to the heading of smallpox in the Registrar-General's corrected Returns, in accordance with the remarks made in Dr. Tatham's annual letter to the Registrar-General, analysing the causes of death.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS, Battersea)I have communicated with the Registrar-General on this subject, and he informs mo that it would not be practicable that the suggested transfers should be made, as he has no means of ascertaining how many of the cases referred to were in fact cases of small-pox.