§ MR. LLEWELLYN (Somersetshire, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the increase in the number of children certified as successfully vaccinated in the Axbridge Union of the county of Somerset during the first six months of the present year as against a similar period of 1898; and whether he can state the figures.
§ MR. CHAPLINIt appears from the Return which has been made to the Local Government Board that the number of certificates of successful primary vaccination received by the vaccination officers of the Axbridge Union in the first six months of 1898 was 81, and during the first six months of the present year 415ߞan increase of 334, or over 400 per cent.