§ MR. GUTHRIE (Tower Hamlets, Bow)To ask the President of the Local Government Board, whether his attention has been called to a report made by a Committee of the Poplar Guardians with respect to the entries made in the vaccination registers for the Lady Day, 1902, quarter; and whether he will direct an investigation into the matter, or what action he proposes to take on the report.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) My attention has been called to the report referred to. The number of cases included in the registers for the quarter ended at Lady Day, 1902, amounted to upwards of 10,000, and I could not undertake to cause an investigation to be made into all these cases. One of the medical inspectors of my Department will, however, shortly visit the union for the purpose of making the ordinary inspection of the work of vaccination. He would in the usual course inquire generally into the action of the public vaccinators in making the entries in their registers, and I have directed that in the present case he shall make a special report to me on the subject.