§ MR. BARTLEY (Islington, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state how many children were born in England and Wales in 1900, or the last year for which the statistics are known, and how many of these were vaccinated.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe latest complete returns are those for the year 1898. The number of children born in that year was 923,059, and of these 562,737 were successfully vaccinated.
§ MR. BARTLEYAre we to understand, then, that just half the population is now unvaccinated under the new law?
§ MR. WALTER LONGI should not like my hon. friend to draw that deduction at present, because these figures are only for 1898.
SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether these figures are larger than those of preceding years?
§ MR. WALTER LONGI could not really say, as I have not the figures before me.