§ MR. P. A. TAYLORasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether it is true that he has given any sanction to a resolution lately brought before the Holborn Board of Guardians, under which relief would be refused to all paupers who had not been vaccinated?
§ MR. DODSONI have not given my sanction to any resolution by the Holborn Guardians under which relief would be refused to all paupers who had not been vaccinated. Nor do I believe that any such resolution has been passed by them. In view of the spread of small-pox, a recommendation was made to the Guardians that the medical officer, when examining paupers on their admission to the workhouse, should ascertain whether they had been vaccinated, and, if not, that steps should be taken to induce their vaccination as early as practicable; but this is a very different thing from making vaccination a condition of relief, which would be altogether illegal.