§ MR. HOPWOODasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whe-he has yet received information respecting the contracting of small-pox at the Sheffield Hospital by a medical man and a nurse, and the result of the attack; and, whether one or other had been re-vaccinated previously?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLAt the Sheffield Hospital in 1882 the medical officer and a ward servant, who had both been re-vaccinated, had attacks of small-pox so mild that scarcely any rash appeared. The cook, who had not been re-vaccinated, but who had previously had small-pox, had an attack in a modified form. The only severe case in the hospital at the time was that of a patient who had never been vaccinated. This patient died.
§ MR. HOPWOODasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he has communicated to the authors of the Facts Concerning Vaccination, published with the sanction of the Local 1481 Government Board, his view of the unguarded nature of the statements that no hospital nurse has been attacked with small-pox after re-vaccination?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLWe have informed the National Health Society of the reply which I gave to the Question of the hon. and learned Member on the 31st March last.