HC Deb 16 February 1915 vol 69 cc1011-2W
Mr. BENTHAM

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he will state the number of cases of and deaths from paratyphoid fever amongst British soldiers on the Continent of Europe and in the United Kingdom since 1st August, 1914, and the number of such men who had been inoculated against typhoid fever?

Mr. TENNANT

In the Expeditionary Force up to the 11th instant there had been forty-five cases of paratyphoid and one death. No information is available as to the number of cases in the United Kingdom, nor as to the number of the cases in the Expeditionary Force in which there had been inoculation.