§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Health the number of deaths in Great Britain resulting from influenza for each of the three months ended to the last convenient date, giving the figures for London and each of the principal provincial towns?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe figures asked for, so far as they are available for England and Wales, are contained in the tabular statement below. With regard to Scotland, the hon. Member should address an inquiry to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
51,067; deaths, 2,923. Scarlet fever: notifications, 81,670: deaths, 667. The corresponding figures for earlier years will be found in the Statistical Review of the Registrar-General.
§ Mr. WESTWOODasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will give the notificatione of diphtheria and the deaths registered from that disease for each of the years 1911 to 1926 in the 581W following towns, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, Kirkcaldy, Perth, Dundee, Inverness, Greenock, Stirling, St. Andrews, Ayr, Oban, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Dunfermline, Forfar, Haddington, Kirkcudbright, Nairn, Peebles, Saltcoats, and Wigtown, and similar figures, for scarlet fever?
§ Sir J. GILMOURA statistical table giving the information desired by the hon. Member is being prepared and will be communicated to him when it is completed.