§ MR. COOPERTo ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has received the Report of the Special Committee of the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of beri-beri on merchant ships; and, if so, when will it be published.
(Answered by Sir H. Kearley.) A Report by the Committee of the Royal College of Physicians on beri-beri has been received, but it contains no very definite conclusions on the subject and the Board of Trade do not propose to publish it. The Committee suggested that a Commission which is at present at work at Quala Lumpur on the subject of beri-beri might throw some light on the matter, and the Board of Trade are awaiting the Report of that Commission.