§ Mr. FREEMANasked the Minister of Health whether the investigations into the cause of the deaths of 67 children at Lübeck early in 1930 following the Calmette treatment of the Pasteur Institute are yet completed; and, if so, can he obtain a report on the matter?
§ Miss LAWRENCEMy right hon. Friend understands that an official report has been made to the German Imperial Health Council concerning these deaths. The council concluded that the deaths were not traceable to the original B.C.G. cultures, but were probably due to some unexplained admixture with virulent tubercle bacilli. The Imperial Council have also confirmed their decision of 1927 that the use of living bacilli, even in an attenuated form, for human prophylaxis is undesirable in the present state of knowledge.