§ MR. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the varying practice of magistrates as to permitting, or declining to permit, the mother of a legitimate child, when the father is living, to apply for, on behalf of the father, and receive a certificate of exemption on account of conscientious objection under the Vaccination Act, 1898, he will issue a circular to clerks of Petty Sessional Courts on this point.
§ * MR. RITCHIEThe question appears to turn upon the admissibility of particular evidence in particular cases; and this is not a subject upon which I can issue a circular as suggested.