§ Mr. VIANTasked the Minister of Health whether his medical staff have formed any opinion as to the cause of the marked increase in the number of deaths certified as being due to erysipelas during the years 1930 to 1934?
§ Mr. SHAKESPEAREThe incidence of this disease, the increase of which is only one manifestation of the increased prevalence of a group of diseases of similar causation which has tended to occur in waves of a few years' duration, is receiving the attention of my right hon. Friend's medical advisers, but he is advised that no firm conclusions are at present possible as to the reasons for this periodicity.