§ MR. MELLOR (Yorkshire, West Riding, Sowerby)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been called to the case of a young girl named Frances H. Richardson, who applied for the position of assistant mistress in a Board school at Sowerby Bridge, and who was rejected by order of the Education Department on the ground that she was not vaccinated; whether the Department was then aware that her father had obtained a certificate dispensing with vaccination for his children; and whether, in his daughter's case, the objection will now be removed.
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityThe answer to paragraph 1 is in the affirmative, to paragraphs 2 and 3 in the negative. The Committee of Council are advised that the vaccination of teachers is desirable in the interests of children attending the schools.