§ Mr. A. Edwardsasked the Minister of Health why an out-of-date pamphlet with regard to the diagnosis of smallpox has been circulated by his Ministry; whether he is aware that this pamphlet does not solve difficulties which have recently arisen in regard to the diagnosis of smallpox; and whether he will commission a doctor with a thorough knowledge of smallpox, chicken-pox and any other disease which may be confused with smallpox, to make a differentiation between the different symptoms of these other diseases for the use of medical officers of health.
§ Mr. WillinkThe pamphlet to which my hon. Friend refers was written by an authoritative and highly competent author, and I am advised that its value to those who may be concerned in the diagnosis of smallpox is as great to-day as when it was written. I may remind my hon. Friend that I have set up a panel of consultants with special experience of smallpox whose services are available to practitioners when required, and I see no necessity to adopt the suggestion in the last part of the Question.