§ Mr. LUNNasked the Minister of Health whether he has received any information as to the prevalence of smallpox in Germany during the years 1918 and 1919; and, if so, whether he can give the 54W number of cases and deaths occurring and the districts in which they were notified, with any other information that is in his possession?
§ Dr. ADDISONThere had been an epidemic of smallpox in Germany during 1917, comprising some 3,000 cases, the origin of which was traced to infection brought into Germany by Russian prisoners. During 1918 cases continued to occur, amounting, so far as our information goes, to about 300 in number. In December of that year there was a recrudescence of the disease, and up to the end of 1919 about 4,344 cases had been reported; of this number some 800 occurred in Dresden, and about 164 at Danzig. Among the places in which smallpox was prevalent in 1919 were: Oppeln (311 cases), Konigsberg (88), Stettin (24), Breslau (58), Berlin (25), and Cassel (34), but the number of deaths has not yet been reported. In 1917 and 1918 there were many foreigners in Germany, prisoners, refugees and others, including Russians, Poles, Austrians, Italians, Belgians and French; and it is more than probable that many of these foreigners were unprotected by vaccination. The information that has reached us does not include separate statistics as to the number of Germans and foreigners, respectively, who were attacked during 1918 and 1919, or the number of deaths in each category