§ MR. JACOB BRIGHTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he is aware that in several of the Registrar General's weekly Returns in February and March of this year the proportions of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons who died of small-pox in the metropolis were given; and, whether he can state for what reason, or at whose suggestion those important particulars have been omitted since the 11th of March last?
MR. BRUCEsaid, in reply, that the Registrar General, at his own instance and for the public information, obtained Returns of the proportions of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons who died of small-pox in the Metropolis; but after two months' experience he discovered that the Returns were inaccurate and incomplete, and he, therefore, of his own authority discontinued the publication of them. With respect to the vaccinated there was no evidence of the completeness of the vaccination, and, further, the Returns would be misleading unless something like the proportion of vaccinated to unvaccinated persons in the kingdom could be ascertained.