HC Deb 20 June 1932 vol 267 c769
44. Mr. GROVES

asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the two men in the second battalion Scots Guards at Aldershot, who recently died of spotted fever, were originally diagnosed as suffering from that disease or from smallpox?

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Duff Cooper)

The cases were diagnosed as cerebrospinal fever from the beginning of the illness.