MR. HEYGATEasked the President of the Poor Law Board, Whether it is the practice in certain Poor Law Unions to arrange their Vaccination Contracts for the months of April and October only; whether an application recently made by the Guardians of the Hambledon Union to the Poor Law Board, to sanction such an alteration of their Vaccination Contract as would enable vaccination to be performed in the month of July in addition to the months of April and October, has not been refused; and, if he considers an arrangement safe by which children born shortly after the months fixed for public vaccination remain unvaccinated for nearly six months?
§ MR. STANSFELD, in reply, said, it was the practice in sparsely-populated Unions to sanction vaccination contracts for the months of April and October only. The object of that arrangement was to secure the attendance of a sufficient number of children for vaccination and the supply of fresh lymph. It was true an application had been recently made to the Poor Law Board by the Guardians of the Hambledon Union to sanction such an alteration of the vaccination contract as would enable vaccination to be performed in the month of July; but the Privy Council had advised them not to assent to the arrangement.