§ Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Minister of Health how many human disease-carriers are known to his Department; what diseases are thus carried; and what is the general policy of his Department with respect to the surveillance of such cases?
Sir H. YOUNGThe number of human disease-carriers about whom information is available in my Department is necessarily small, but I am advised that most infectious diseases are capable of being carried in this way, and that all persons may be carriers of some disease at one time or another, though not of course necessarily responsible for the spread of the disease. The policy of my Department is that known carriers of disease should not engage in any occupation which would render them a special source of danger to the public.