§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India, having regard to the fact that the Command Paper entitled Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material Progress and Condition of India, 1905–6, declares that very valuable results have been obtained by the Plague Investigation Committee, will he consider the expediency of appointing a committee to inquire into the prevalence of cancer 599 in India, and the measures taken to combat with the disease.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) The investigations which the hon. Member desires are already being prosecuted in India by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in co-operation with the Government of India. Arrangements have been made for the systematic collection of data as to the prevalence of the disease in India and for the transmission of the same by medical officers to the Cancer Research Fund for examination and record. The research work which the fund is carrying on will guide the Indian medical authorities in the adoption of measures for combating the disease, which relatively to plague has a very slight effect on the health of the general population of India.