§ Mr. Crouchasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he proposes to take to encourage research into the development of better vaccines for the treatment of rabies in human beings.
§ Dr. OwenIn February the Health Departments stressed to the Medical Research Council the need for further development of rabies vaccine. Since then the council's trials on a newly developed French vaccine—as indicated in the reply to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science on 15th June to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Mr. Price)—[Vol. 913, c.118–9]—have enabled my Department to license the vaccine for use in this country as a preventive measure for people at special risk. The Medical Research Council is now beginning experiments designed to test whether the French vaccine is effective for treating
294Wment Board; and what was the population covered by the activities of the board in 1973, 1974 and 1975.
§ Mr. Gregor MackenzieThe expenditure of the Highlands and Islands Development Board is met by grant in aid and receipts from repayment of loans, etc. The revenue and expenditure for each of the three years ended 31st March 1973, 1974 and 1975, adjusted for balances of cash in hand carried forward to the following years, were as follows:
people who have been bitten by a rabid animal.