§ Mr. Donnerasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the serious plight of growers of watercress in north-west Hampshire and elsewhere resulting from the refusal of retailers to buy, in consequence of public fear of typhoid infection; and whether he can give an assurance that there is no evidence to show that watercress is responsible for the present outbreak and that the public incur no danger by eating watercress, particularly when grown, as in Hampshire, a great distance from any known centre of infection?
§ Mr. BernaysYes, Sir, the attention of my right hon. Friend has been drawn to Press statements on this matter. While he could not properly express an opinion as to the cause of the present outbreak, pending the result of the forthcoming public inquiry, my right hon. Friend may say that he has no evidence to suggest that it is any way connected with the eating of watercress.