§ Mr. Viantasked the Minister of Health whether his regulations provide that doctors who certify deaths as due to diphtheria are under any obligation to state whether the victims had been immunised or not; and what facilities are given the certifying doctor to obtain information on this point.
§ Mr. BevanNo. Diphtheria being a notifiable disease, medical officers of health know of fatal cases and can usually tell from the local authority's immunisation records whether a child who dies from diphtheria was immunised or not.