§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the Minister of Health the provisional number of cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, chicken-pox, pneumonia, enteric fever, small-pox and encephalitis lethargica notified during the year 1925?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe figures asked for, with the exception of those for chicken-pox, which is not universally notifiable, are as follows:
Disease. Provisional number of cases in England and Wales, 1925. Diphtheria 47,723 Scarlet fever 91,357 Pneumonia 55,960 Enteric fever 2,779 Small-pox 5,363 Encephalitis lethargica 2,637