HC Deb 25 November 1946 vol 430 cc227-8W
Mrs. Manning

asked the Minister of Health how many cases of diphtheria in fully-immunised children in England and Wales were recorded during the last six months of the year 1945.

Mr. Bevan

Six-monthly totals are not available, but the returns from all but a few local authorities for the whole of the year 1945 show that in England and Wales there were 4,410 notified cases and 33 deaths among immunised children under 15 compared with 8,780 cases and 558 deaths among children not immunised.