§ 57. Mr. LEES-JONESasked the Secretary of State for War what experiments and/or investigations have been made on behalf of the War Office into the prevention and cure of the common cold 1830 and influenza within the last six years; and what success, if any, has attended them?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Duff Cooper)Investigations have been undertaken in vaccine-therapy and in prevention by extensive hygienic precautions, without, however, satisfactory evidence being obtained as to the efficacy of vaccines in relation to either influenza or the common cold. An inquiry now being conducted in collaboration with the Medical Research Council, however, gives hope of more promising results.