§ MR. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state how far back the lymph No. 1,538, used in the case of Mr. Essex, who died of blood poisoning eleven days after vaccination, can be traced, and did it begin with inoculation. This is the case referred to in my Question to the hon. Gentleman on Monday last.†
§ MR. GRANT LAWSONSome lymph was obtained by the Local Government Board from Cologne in December, 1900, and it has passed through a series of five calves in succession. The resulting lymph was that used in the case of Mr. Essex. The original lymph and that derived from it have been used in the vaccination of 264 calves, and no complaints have been received of ill effects from the use of the resulting lymph in any other case, although it has been used for the vaccination of a large number of persons. I cannot give precise information as to the derivation of the particular lymph obtained from Cologne; but as a rule the stock there is renewed by inoculation of the calf with human vaccine lymph.