§ Mr. WATERSON asked the Secretary of State for War the incidence of tetanus in the recent war, as regards wounded men brought to England, wounded men nursed in France or other parts of the Continent, wounded men in Mesopotamia, and wounded men in Gallipoli and Egypt, and other theatres of war, giving the 1674W attack-rate and the death-rate per thousand wounded in each case?
§ Mr. CHURCHILL: I regret that complete statistics are not yet available. For the period from August, 1914, to December, 1918, the number of cases of, and deaths from, tetanus reported in France, Belgium and the United Kingdom, among the troops wounded in France and Belgium, give approximately an attack-rate of 1.22 per 1,000, and a death rate of ½49 per 1,000. I have no figures at present regarding the incidence of tetanus in the other theatres of war mentioned, but I am informed that very few cases occurred in any of them.