In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Chancellor complained
that inoculation was being made virtually com- pulsory. Men were terrorized into being inoculated against their will. Dr. Addison, speaking for the Government, had the supremely easy task of shattering the case of the anti- inoculation party. During the first six months of the war, in spite of the atrocious weather, only four hundred and twenty- one eases of typhoid had occurred in the whole of our forces in France. In the South African War there had been fifty- eight thousand cases. Later in the debate there were strong criticisms of the hutting arrangements. It was said that the men were treated "like wild beasts." Mr. Harold Baker admitted that the butting polioy had worked less satisfactorily than bad been hoped. At present there were huts for four hundred thousand men. The Government had been over- anxious to get. the men into the huts, and the process of construction had outstripped the making of roads and the laying of drains. But, after all, the vile weather bad been chiefly to blame. Mr. Long thought the official explanation very disappointing. A " finished " but was evidently too often a but not fit to live in. The War Office would have dono better to make more use of local knowledge.
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