§ MR. THOMAS BAYLEYI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been drawn to the use of smallpox virus passed through pustules on monkeys as a source of vaccine by Dr. S. Monckton Copeman, Medical Inspector Local Government Board, who states that a considerable number of children have been vaccinated with vaccine thus obtained; and whether the Local Government Board has given its medical inspector leave to vaccinate children with vaccine of such a nature.
§ MR. WALTER LONGDr. Copeman informs me that he has made experiments of the kind referred to in the Question. The Local Government Board have not given him permission to vaccinate children with lymph yielded by the monkey, and I understand that he has not in fact done so. In all cases the vaccinations have been performed with lymph derived directly from the calf.