§ MR. LAURENCE HARDYI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the report of the inquest on James Shaw in the City Coroner's Court on 8th February; and whether he will take steps to extend the provisions with regard to the compulsory notification of disease to all cases of anthrax in human beings, arising from any cause, and to all cases of glanders in human beings, or of suspected glanders.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSMy attention has been called to the report of the inquest referred to. It is competent for a sanitary authority, with the consent of the Local Government Board, to make cases of anthrax and glanders in man compulsorily notifiable in their district. I may, however, state that glanders is a rare disease as regards human beings, Cases of anthrax in man chiefly occur in factories and workshops, and as regards these cases arrangements are made by my right hon. friend the Secretary of State for information of them being given to the local medical officer of health.