§ MR. HOPWOODI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Local Government Board in Ireland obtains calf lymph from Dr. Hime, of Bradford; if so, can he state what is the origin of the lymph in question; whether he is aware that the Department some years since threatened the Galway Guardians with prosecution for using similar lymph; and whether it guarantees that there is no danger of inoculating tuberculosis from a diseased calf?
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. MORLEY, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)The Local Government Board recommend the use of humanised 1267 lymph, collected subject to approval on examination by Dr. Montgomery, Secretary of the Vaccine Department of the Board. On rare occasions, when applicants apply for calf lymph, the Board obtain supplies from Dr. Hime, of Bradford, a careful collector, and satisfactory results have been obtained from the use of his calf lymph, which the Board are informed came from the same source as that supplying the Belgian Government's calf lymph station at Brussels. It is not possible to guarantee calf lymph in the manner suggested in the question, but no competent collector would select a diseased animal for the cultivation of calf lymph. The proposal of the Galway Guardians in 1879 was not for the use of calf lymph similar in its origin to that used by Dr. Hime. Their proposal was that they should procure and inoculate a calf, and it was apparent from the manner in which the proposal was submitted that the subject was not sufficiently understood by them. The Local Government Board notified their disapproval of the suggested experiment.