§ Sir Anthony Kershawasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he expects vaccines against meningitis to be available in the Stroud district.
§ Mr. WhitneyI am advised that it is likely to be at least a year before a vaccine against group B meningoccal meningitis (the form of the disease which has been most evident in Stroud), becomes available. Work to develop444W such a vaccine is being carried out at the United Kingdom Centre for Applied Microbiological Research and also, 1 understand, in the United States.