§ MR. HOPWOODasked the Vice President of the Local Government Board, in regard to the alleged inoculation of French soldiers with syphilis by vaccination, which occurred in December 1880, Whether he will think it right to lay upon the Table all the information he has obtained on the subject?
§ MR. DODSONThe information which I have obtained is, as I told my hon. and learned Friend on a former occasion, 1299 so incomplete that it throws no further light upon the subject; and I see no advantage, therefore, in laying it upon the Table of the House. At the same time, I am as anxious as my hon. and learned Friend to obtain as much information as possible with respect to the extraordinary circumstances referred to; and I have now again requested the Foreign Office to endeavour to ascertain whether the French Government have made any further inquiry into the matter, with a view of obtaining any additional particulars in their possession.