§ MR. C. H. HOPWOOD (Lancashire, S.E., Middleton)I beg to ask the Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the fact of a fire having taken place in the Liverpool Small Pox Hospital, on or about 30th January, and that, the City Fire Brigade having extinguished the fire, it was thereupon insisted that the Fire Superintendent and his 14 men must be, and they were, vaccinated before leaving; and by what law, or by whose authority, was the vaccination enforced?
THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Sir WALTER FOSTER, Derby, Ilkeston)The Local Government Board are informed that it was strongly suggested that the officers of the fire brigade who were on duty on the occasion of the fire at the Parkhill Small Pox Hospital should be re-vaccinated in consequence of the serious risk of small pox being contracted by persons who had not been vaccinated or had been improperly vaccinated. The Board are informed that no compulsion was or could be exercised in the matter, that none of the men objected to the operation, and, further, that upwards of 50 policemen who had been in contact with the firemen came of their own free will and asked to be vaccinated.