Mr. CHANCELLORasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, of the 893 military and naval cases of enteric fever reported by the Local Government Board as having occurred in this country in 1916–17, of which forty are naval, the balance, 853, are military; if so, are these cases reported to the Local Government Board by the medical superintendents of military hospitals; if not, by whom; and will he obtain from the proper authority and furnish the House with particulars as to the number of cases and the number of fatalities, inoculated and uninoculated, respectively?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONAll cases of infectious disease are reported by officers514W commanding hospitals to the local medical officers of health. I regret that the information requested in the last part of the question is not available.