§ Mr. BLACKasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he will explain why the figures relating to the deaths from small-pox in Prussia for the years 1906, 1907, and 1908, which he gave in this House in July last, and those cited by the Registrar-General, on page 132 of the Seventy-first Annual Report and on page 134 of the Seventy-second Annual Report, are all three at variance; and will he state which statistics are correct?
§ Mr. BURNSI understand that the figures given in the Registrar-General's seventy-second Report correspond with the corrected figures issued by the German Imperial Health Office. Those published in the seventy-first Report were supplied to the Registrar-General by the President of the Prussian Statistical Department, but appear to have been provisional or un-revised figures. The figure of 107 in the answer to my hon. Friend's question of the 29th June last should have been 114. With this correction, the information then given agrees with that in the seventy-second Report of the Registrar-General.