HC Deb 22 March 1881 vol 259 c1652
MR. P. A. TAYLOR

asked the President of the Local Government Board, If he can state to the House the source whence the new animal lymph is to be obtained, that is, whether the calves are now innoculated from a diseased horse or from a human being suffering under small pox, or from what other source?

MR. DODSON

Sir, the Medical Department hope to commence their series of calf vaccination from a well-ascertained case of spontaneous cowpox. If such lymph cannot be obtained, they will commence their series from the well-known lymph from The Hague or Brussels station, taking where it has long been in use.