§ Mr. R. YOUNGasked the Minister of Health, how many persons have suffered from zymotic diseases in the Woodford parish of Essex, and the number of deaths monthly since April, 1919; and whether the main contributory cause is that in wet weather the sewage conduit pipe leading to the sewage works of the Woodford council overflows into the adjoining ditches, and that those ditches have not been properly cleared and cleansed?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe total number of notification of zymotic and other infectious diseases in this parish since April 1st, 1919, is as follows:—Diptheria, 48; scarlet fever, 38; measles and German measles, 26; enteric fever, 1; puerperal fever, 1; malaria, 17; influenzal pneumonia, 20. The only deaths in the parish from zymotic diseases during the same period were five deaths from diptheria. I have no complete information as to the number of notifications and deaths for each month during that period. As regards the last part of the question, I am advised that there is no ground for believing that the condition of the sewage conduit pipe referred to is a contributory cause of illness or death from zymotic disease.