§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state where the rules relating to the conduct of medical inspectors under the Local Government Board are laid down; and will he say whether these 701 inspectors have power to threaten vaccination officers with dismissal.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. WALTER LONG,) Bristol, S.The medical inspectors visit different parts of the country and carry out the particular directions given to them. There are no fixed rules on the subject. As regards the last part of the Question, the inspectors report to me as to the manner in which vaccination officers carry out the duties of their office, and, in certain cases where it is found that important duties are wilfully neglected, they have been instructed to point out to the officers that similar neglect has been considered by the Department a reason for requiring the resignation of the officer concerned.