§ Mr. Pearsonasked the Minister of Health will he give figures of the suspects notified under Regulation 33B as suffering from venereal disease and those known to have been brought under treatment through action taken by the appropriate public health authorities?
§ Mr. WillinkUp to 30th June, 1943, the latest date for which figures are available, the number of persons who were reported as alleged sources of venereal infection by two or more persons under treatment, which is necessary for the operation of Regulation 33B, was 110; and by the same date 71 of these had been brought under treatment by local authorities. About 220 other persons, out of approximately 1,780 in respect of whom only one report reached medical officers of health (and who were not, therefore, subject to action under the Regulation), were induced to undertake treatment when informally approached as a result of the single report.