§ SIR MORTON PETOsaid, he wished to ask the President of the Board of Health, Whether, as the registration of cases of vaccination is a total failure, both for statistical purposes and as an effective adjunct for the prosecution of offenders under the Act, it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to amend the Act this Session?
§ MR. LOWE, in reply, said, it was quite true that the system of registration under the Vaccination Act was very bad, but it 1909 would cost a great deal of money to improve it. Moreover, even when improved, it would not make these compulsory measures effectual to any extent. The great difficulty in working them was due not so much to defective legislation as to the reluctance of persons to prosecute poor people for disobedience to a law, the neglect of which was countenanced by too many who ought to know better. He was sorry, therefore, that he could not hold out any hopes of an improvement in the system.