§ Captain JESSELasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to a request from some forty members of the medical profession asking for the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the facts concerning venereal diseases, and to recommend what steps, prophylactic and therapeutic, should be taken to cope with these diseases; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe request is receiving careful consideration.