HC Deb 01 May 1930 vol 238 cc378-9W
Mr. HACKING

asked the Minister of Health how many cases of parrot disease have been reported to him during each of the past two months?

Mr. GREENWOOD

My Department has received information of 24 cases of illness which commenced during March and two during April, in which the patients had been associated with sick parrots. I am advised, however, that in the present state of knowledge of psittacosis it is not possible to say definitely how many of these persons were in fact suffering from that disease.