§ SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, if he can state the amount of vaccination which has been performed during the first six months of this year under the provisions of the Vaccination Act of last year, as compared with the amount of vaccination 1472 performed during the first six months of last year.
§ THE PRESIDENT OFTHE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, SleafordThe Returns, which I have obtained show that the total number of certificates of successful primary vaccination received by the, vaccination officers during the first six months of the present year was 353,992, as against 277,821 in the first six months of 1898. It thus appears that notwithstanding the difficulties of securing a. simultaneous alteration of method throughout the country, involving amongst other things a system of domiciliary instead of stational vaccination, there has been an increase of 76,000 primary vaccinations or of more than 27 per cent in the first six months of the present year as compared with the corresponding period of 1898.