§ Mr. HACKINGasked the Minister of Health how many cases of parrot disease have been reported to him during each of the past two months?
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§ Mr. GREENWOODMy 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.