§ MR. P. A. TAYLORasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he is aware that Mr. C. J. Neale was, on the 24th instant, fined by the Bristol magistrates six pounds and costs for the non-vaccination of six of his children, he having previously paid about ninety pounds in fines and costs for the same children; and, whether he will issue a circular similar to that addressed by the Local Government Board to the Guardians of Evesham in 1875 in deprecation of repeated prosecutions?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE,in reply, said, that he was not in a position to state the exact amount of the fines which had been inflicted in this case; but he believed they were of considerable amount, as Mr. Neale had been frequently summoned for non-compliance with the law. The Local Government Board were now considering whether they would send to the Bristol Guardians a Circular similar to that sent in 1875 to the Evesham Guardians in deprecation of those repeated prosecutions.