HC Deb 13 March 1883 vol 277 cc365-6
MR. P. A. TAYLOR

asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, in the appointment of public vaccinators, the conditions and restrictions under which vaccination is to be enforced are made the subject of specific contract; and, if he will provide means to make the terms of such contract as widely known as possible, so that, in cases where disease or death follows upon the operations parents may have the satisfaction of knowing that all the precautions deemed necessary by the medical advisers of the Local Government Board have been scrupulously observed?

MR. HIBBERT

Sir, the contracts with public vaccinators contain a provision that the vaccinations shall be performed in accordance with certain instructions to public vaccinators which were issued by the Privy Council in 1871. Copies of these instructions have been freely issued by the Local Government Board, and they will be quite prepared to furnish copies whenever they are applied to for the purpose. No further means of making the terms of these instructions known appear to the Board to be necessary.