§ Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health whether the Medical Research Council have completed their report on 57W the result of their inquiries into the deaths of 76 infants in Lubeck, Germany, following the administration of the Calmette prophylactic tuberculosis vaccine; and, if so, when is it proposed to make the report public?
Sir H. YOUNGI am sending the hon. Member a copy of a reply given by my predecessor to a question on this subject on 6th November, 1930. As stated in that reply, the report made to the Medical Research Council by their two representatives who visited Germany was a confidential one and dealt with technical matters which are of interest only to research workers. It is, therefore, not proposed to make the report public. The report did not traverse the ground of the official German inquiry which was made by the Imperial Board of Health. The substance of the report on that inquiry was given in reply to a question on 17th February last, a copy of which I am also sending to the hon. Member.