§ Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the ratio of the increase in the population in the county borough of West Ham far exceeds the degree of house building and accommodation; as this contributes to overcrowding and ill-health, what steps he proposes to take to deal with the matter: and what overtures have been made between the local authority and his Department for the construction of dwellings to cope with the need?
1598Wof health each week particulars of the numbers of cases of notifiable diseases occurring in their areas, and the crude attack rates for each year per 1,000 of the civilian population are worked out from the figures so supplied. Measles is not a notifiable disease in any of the administrative areas included in the West Ham Union, but particulars of the numbers of cases, and the attack fates, of diphtheria and scarlet fever in each of these areas have already been published for the years 1924, 1925 and 1926, in Table 28 of Part I of the Registrar-General's Statistical Review. Similar particulars for 1927 and 1928 will be published in due course in the Statistical Review for those years.