HC Deb 12 August 1901 vol 99 cc426-7
MR. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that William Venables, of Thornton Hough, was granted an exemption from vaccination as a conscientious objector by the Birken head county magistrates for his first child in June, 1899, and that he was refused exemption by the same court in July, 1901, for another child, then under four months old; and whether there is any way in which he can obtain exemption for this child also.

*THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. RITCHIE,) Croydon

The facts are as stated. It appears that in the second case the applicant failed to satisfy the justices of his conscientious belief that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of the child in question. It is open to him to apply to any other justice for a certificate of exemption until the child attains the age of four months.