HC Deb 25 March 1886 vol 303 c1802
MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he will obtain information respecting the vaccination with humanised lymph of seventy-nine children in the Island of Rügen in June last; whether it is true that seventy-six of them were attacked in a few days with contagious disorder, which was communicated to their parents, brothers, and sisters, to the number of three hundred and twenty; what number of the children died; and, whether the lymph was obtained from the Royal Vaccine Institution at Stettin?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. BRYCE) (Aberdeen, S.)

Her Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin has been instructed to report on this subject; and I shall be glad to communicate the Report, when received, to the hon. Member.