§ MR. M'ARTHUR (Leicester)asked the President of the Local Government board, Whether, with a view to minimise the risks of vaccination, new Instructions have been issued to public vaccinators; whether, in Article 7 of those Instructions, direction is given for the careful examination of vaccinifers as to the existence of skin diseases, and particularly of hereditary syphilis; and, whether eminent authorities like Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson and Mr. Brudenell Carter have testified that the signs of syphilis are frequently undistinguishable until after the vaccination age?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)Revised Instructions have been issued; but the direction referred to was contained in the old Instructions. I am not aware whether Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Brudenell Carter have testified in the way referred to in the last Question; but I may say that the be are know of no evidence of syphilis having been communicated by vaccination from a child not itself presenting signs of syphilis. I may add that I am informed that signs of inherited syphilis in a child usually make their appearance within two months after birth, and the customary vaccination age in England is three or four months.