§ MR. J. W. LOGAN (Leicester, Harborough)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, whether his attention has been called to a statement recently made by their clerk to the guardians of the Warminster Union, to the effect that he had inquired of the Local Government Board's vaccination inspector what would be the result of the Report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination, and that the said inspector informed him that the Act would be so amended that the penalty would be imprisonment after the second offence; and, whether such statement was made by the Board's inspector, and, if so, whether with or without authority; and, in the latter case, whether he will give such instructions as shall for the future 754 prevent the officials of the Board from spreading unauthorised assertions, which are easily mistaken for official announcements?
§ MR. CHAPLINI am informed that the inspector who visited the Warminster Union has no recollection of having made a statement to the clerk to the guardians on the subject referred to in the question of the hon. Member; and that, if in conversation with the clerk the matter came under discussion, it would have been impossible for him to have announced what would be the result of the Report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination, for the reason that he has no knowledge whatever of the views of the Commissioners.