SIR TREVOR LAWRENCEasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, having regard to the severity of the present epidemic of small pox, the urgent necessity of providing facilities for vaccination in its most efficient form, and the prejudices which, however unreasonable, exist in some parts against vaccination from arm to arm, he will take steps to provide a supply of vaccine lymph from the calf for such public vaccinators as may require it, as is done in Belgium?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTHIn reply to my hon. Friend, Sir, I can assure him that the subject of vaccination from the calf has not been overlooked by Her Majesty's Government. The practice, as pursued in Belgium and other countries, was investigated personally by the present Medical Officer of Health of the Local Government Board. The results of that inquiry will be found in the 12th annual. Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, and they were not favourable to the adoption of the practice. Subsequent experiences of it have been of a conflicting character. The subject is now attracting attention in the country, and will not be lost sight of by the Local Government Board.