§ Mr. Craven-Ellisasked the Minister of Health to what extent tuberculosis and other contagious diseases are due to the workers being inadequately and badly housed?
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§ Miss HorsbrughMy right hon. Friend is aware of no statistics giving a direct quantitative relation between housing conditions and infectious disease, but crowding must naturally tend to favour the spread of such disease. Increased density of population involves generally both a higher incidence of infectious disease and an earlier average age of attack. The question is referred to on page 8 of the Report of the Medical Research Council Committee on Tuberculosis in War-time (Special Report Series No. 246).