§ MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GORE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the vaccination officers for the Gainsborough Union carry out the orders of the Local Government Board and take proceedings in opposition to the wishes of the guardians; and whether the Local Government Board will uphold the officers in their action, as they are threatened with dismissal or to be called upon to resign by the guardians.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) It is the duty of a vaccination officer to take 393 proceedings against defaulters under the Vaccination Acts, and I understand that the vaccination officers of this union have recently taken proceedings of this kind, although the guardians have been opposed to this course. As regards the last part of the Question, the consent of the Local Government Board is necessary before a vaccination officer can be dismissed. I should not be prepared to give that consent where the ground of the proposed dismissal was that the officer had performed his duty in this matter.