§ COLONEL SADLER (Middlesbrough)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will favourably 1301 consider the desirability of making an order for preventing the spread of smallpox to the effect that all persons who have been exposed to the infection thereof should be isolated during the incubation period of the disease, or alternatively vaccinated or revaccinated; and further that it should be made an offence to withhold information or give false information in respect to cases of smallpox.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I will consider the expediency of giving local authorities further powers in relation to these matters But legislation would probably be necessary if the subject is to be dealt with satisfactorily.