§ Mr. DUNCANasked the Minister of Health whether the three nurses who contracted diphtheria whilst attending a case of that disease in the Brentford Urban District in March, 1924, as mentioned on page 55 of the Annual Report of the chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health for the year 1924, had been previously immunised against that disease in any way; and whether any of the cases proved fatal?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to both parts of the question is in the negative. I am, however, informed that one of the nurses, seven months before attending the case referred to, had received a dose of diphtheria anti-toxin, but that this dose would not confer immunity for more than one month after it was administered.