§ 62. Mr. GILBERTasked the Minister of Health whether there has recently been an increase in the number of cases of diphtheria in London; whether the number of such cases are abnormal; what steps his Department has taken in order to stay the spread of this epidemic; and can he make any general statement on the subject?
§ Sir A. MONDThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. I regret that it is impossible for me in an answer to a Parliamentary question to deal in detail with the preventive measures taken by the Ministry and the local authorities concerned, but I have reason to believe that they are satisfactory and that a very large percentage of the total number of cases of diphtheria have been removed for isolation and treatment to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.