§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)asked the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention had been called to a letter from Professor Crook-shank, of King's College, London, in the Times of April 30; whether the statement there made is correct that the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board, at a meeting of the Pathological Society in December 1887, expressed his satisfaction that the outbreak of cowpox in Wiltshire would afford an opportunity of testing the effects of vaccine from that source on human beings, as had long been desired; whether the Vaccination Department has availed itself of this opportunity; 1362 and, whether the results compared favourably with those from the French lymph; and, if so, why these results have not been published in the Report recently issued by the Medical Officer?
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF TEE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE,) Tower Hamlets, St. George'sI am informed by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board that the statement in the second paragraph of the question is incorrect.