§ Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the first case of smallpox in the recent outbreak at Blackburn that proved fatal the day after admission into hospital had been wrongly diagnosed; and to what was his death attributed on the death certificate?
Sir H. YOUNGThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. On the death certificate the death was attributed to (a) Heart failure, (b) Acute toxaemia, (c) Varicella. The death has been classed to smallpox.