§ Sir COURTENAY WARNERI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for War a question of which I have given him private notice, namely: If he can give the latest figures dealing with enteric fever among soldiers of the Expeditionary Force and the comparative number of cases amongst those who have been inoculated and those who have not?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe latest information with regard to the incidence of enteric fever amongst the British troops in the Expeditionary Force is as follows: Up to date 963 cases have occurred. Of these 780 have been analysed. One hundred and forty-two cases have occurred in men inoculated fully with two doses of vaccine. Among these ten deaths have occurred, giving a case mortality of 7 per cent. One hundred and fifty-seven cases have occurred 980 in men partially protected by inoculation, i.e., who have had only one dose of vaccine. Among these there have been ten deaths, giving a case mortality of 6.36 per cent. Four hundred and eighty-one cases have occurred in uninoculated men. Among these there have been 100 deaths, giving a case mortality of 20.79 per cent. To appreciate the full value of these figures if must be brought to notice that 90 per cent. of the troops forming the Expeditionary Force have been inoculated voluntarily. Therefore, amongst 90 per cent. of the Force (i.e., inoculated men) there have been 299 cases and twenty deaths. In the other 10 per cent. (uninoculated men) there have been 481 cases and 100 daths.