§ Mr. FREEMANasked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to make any report on the deaths of 67 child: en at Lübeck early this year following the Calmette treatment of the Pasteur Institute; and whether the inquiries of the represenatives of the Medical Research Council on this matter have now been published?
§ Mr. GREENWOODI have received a copy of a confidential report made to the1074W Medical Research Council by the two representatives who visited Germany. This report deals with technical matters which are of interest only to research workers, and does not traverse the ground of the official German inquiry, which is being made by the Imperial Board of Health. By the courtesy of the German authorities, I have received copies of two statements on the subject made by the Ministry of the Interior. Mention is made in the first of these statements of the neglect of certain precautions which should have been observed in the administration of the treatment; but the investigation into the cause of the deaths, which involves difficult problems of bacteriology, is not complete and, according to the latest information in my possession, may not be completed for some time.