Mr. CHANCELLORasked the President of the Local Government Board whether the medical men who are proceeding to China to study the plague will visit places where plague is actually raging and study it on the spot; and whether they will investigate and report on the sanitary conditions of those places, or confine themselves to bacteriological studies in laboratories outside the infected area?
§ Mr. BURNSThe International Plague Commission, which has been appointed on the invitation of the Chinese Government, will meet at Mukden on 3rd April, and, as at present arranged, will sit from two to five weeks. Dr. Farrar, the British representative, will arrive in the country some time earlier than this, so that he may make himself personally acquainted with the local conditions. I am not at present996W aware of the precise nature of the methods of investigation which the Commission may decide to adopt.
Mr. CHANCELLORasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he can see his way to supplement the work of Dr. Farrer by despatching to China a sanitary engineer or a recognised epidemiologist to make an independent investigation and report on the plague?