DR.TANNERI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if the Local Government Board have any information to show how many points or tubes of vaccine lymph can be obtained from a single calf; and what is the average cost to the State per calf used by the National Vaccine Institution for the purpose of propagating vaccinelymph?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. LONG, Wilts, Devizes)The calves at the 1208 Animal Vaccine Establishment are made to serve two purposes, namely, the vaccination of infants direct from the calf at the Lamb's Conduit Street station, and the supply to the National Vaccine Establishment of lymph stored in points, for issue to practitioners (including public vaccinators) desirous of starting series of arm to arm vaccination. The number of points received by the Local Government Board from the Animal Vaccine Establishment averaged in 1888 about 80 per calf, the calf being also used for vaccinations as already stated. Calf lymph is not now issued by the Board in tubes. The cost per calf for lymph propagating purposes could only be separated with great difficulty, if at all, from the expense of maintaining a large infantile vaccination station for the Metropolis, the two expenses going on concurrently in the same premises.