asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of babies' perambulators manufactured during the years 1937 and 1938.

According to the Census of Production, the number of perambulators manufactured in 1935 was 221,000. In addition, 439,000 steel folding baby cars were made. No official figures are available for 1937 and 1938.

asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of successful prosecutions in the area of the North Midland Price Regulation Committee since the inception of price control and the percentage they bear to the total number in all the areas combined.

Since November, 1939, when price control was introduced, up to 29th February, 1944, there have been 96 successful prosecutions in the North Midland Price Regulation Committee's Area. This represents 6.3 per cent. of the total number of successful prosecutions throughout the country between the same dates.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has any statement to make on Anglo-American policy in regard to Arabian oil deposits.

No, Sir. I can make no statement at present, while various questions of oil policy are the subject of Anglo-American discussions in Washington.

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will give the numbers of each of the following grades of established staff in Admiralty and Out-ports now serving with His Majesty's Forces who have been given notional promotion under the Civil Service in absentia arrangements: clerical assistants, clerical officers (Treasury class), departmental clerical officers, pensioner clerks and pensioner writers, respectively.

Notional promotion to members of the grades mentioned has not yet been made in the Admiralty, but investigation into the recommendations made by the various Admiralty Departments is now proceeding, and notional promotion to those who are judged qualified therefor will be announced very shortly. In the meantime the position of those members is not prejudiced as, in the event of the death or invaliding of an absent officer, he will receive the superannuation benefits appropriate to the higher rank for which he is adjudged to be notionally eligible:

asked the Minister of Health the number of cases of tuberculosis for the first quarter of the current year as compared with the same period of 1943 and 1942, respectively.

Final figures for the first quarter of the current year are not yet available, but the provisional monthly figures that I receive from medical officers of health, show approximately 13,350 notifications of tuberculosis in the first 12 weeks of this year. The corresponding figures for the equivalent periods in 1943 and 1942 were approximately 13,000 and 12,100, respectively.

asked the Minister of Health how many persons were removed to the Surrey Isolation Hospital suffering from small-pox recently; how many have recovered; the dates on which these entered and left the hospital; how long the two fatal cases were in the hospital; and how many small-pox patients are still in the hospital.

Ten cases of small-pox have been admitted to the hospital mentioned since 1st March last. Eight of them have recovered. Three cases were admitted on 2nd March and discharged on 17th March, 28th March and 15th April, respectively; one case was admitted on 3rd March and discharged on nth April; two cases were admitted on 12th March and both discharged on 15th April; and two cases admitted on 13th and 15th March respectively, were both discharged on 22nd April. Of the two fatal cases one was in the hospital for two days and the other for four days. There are no smallpox cases in the hospital now.

asked the Minister of Health whether the Yeovil teacher who was recently found to be infected with small-pox had been vaccinated or revaccinated.

I am advised that the diagnosis of small-pox in this case has not been confirmed. The woman concerned was successfully vaccinated in infancy and again at the age of 14.

asked the Minister of Health whether the member of the A.T.S., at a town of which he has been informed, who was recently taken to the neighbour- ing city council's isolation hospital suffering from small-pox, had been vaccinated on joining the A.T.S., or at any other time.

My information is that the woman to whom my hon. Friend refers was vaccinated successfully in infancy and unsuccessfully when she joined the A.T.S.

asked the Minister of Health if he has considered the claim submitted to him regarding a cure for cancer known as H.11.; and if he has received a Report from the Medical Research Council.

I have considered and referred to the Medical Research Council, the claim made for the preparation known as H.11. in the treatment of cancer. The Medical Research Council take the view that as the preparation has been available to the medical profession for a considerable time and has already been widely tried no action on their part is necessary.

asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that cases sent to the London fever hospitals as diphtheria observation cases are similar to cases formerly sent as diphtheria and notified accordingly by the medical practitioner concerned; that the majority of the cases notified as diphtheria that turned out not to be that disease were not withdrawn from the diphtheria classification in the Registrar-General's returns; and, as the object of the new classification at the fever hospitals is to re-diagnose some of the diphtheria observation cases, whether he will arrange for the notification of all the diphtheria observation cases so that there will be a proper comparison between notifications of the present and future and those of the past.

I would refer my hon. Friend to the replies which I gave to my hon. Friends the Members for Bradford Central (Mr. Leach) and Willesden West (Mr. Viant) on 1st March and 18th April, respectively.