DR. CAMERONasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether any steps have been taken to give effect to his promise, made on the 11th of June last, that the Vaccination Department should supply calf lymph as "stock" for vaccination to such medical practitioners as preferred it to ordinary humanized lymph; and, whether, in view of the alarming spread of smallpox in London, the Department would consider the propriety of taking measures to secure a sufficient supply of vaccine lymph for the purpose of re-vaccination?
§ MR. DODSONSir, steps have been taken to give effect to the promise referred to. Careful inquiries have been made by the Medical Officer of the Board, who has visited Holland and Belgium, and inspected the arrangements there for the supply of calf lymph, and for some time past we have been endeavouring to secure suitable premises for the necessary establishment in the Metropolis. This has proved a matter of some difficulty. I am glad to add that the matter has now proceeded so far as to enable me to appoint the Medical Director of the establishment, and arrange with the Treasury as to his staff. I am afraid the Department could not undertake to furnish a sufficient supply of lymph for re-vaccination, the object for which the national Vaccine Establishment was set up, having only been to furnish stock lymph for a limited number of primary vaccinations.
§ MR. DODSONDr. Cory.