§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state why glycerinated calf lymph prepared at the Board's laboratory is not supplied free of charge to the Local Government Board for Scotland for the use of parochial vaccinators in Scotland, having regard to the fact that last year the Scottish Board paid to Dr. Blaxall, a salaried officer of the London Board, the sum of £105 for lymph which was prepared in the Board's laboratory and produced from the Board's calves; and will he explain why Dr. Blaxall is allowed to sell for his own profit lymph prepared in an establishment supported out of Imperial funds.
778 (Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) Under an arrangement of a provisional character made in 1899, with the consent of the Treasury, the Local Government Board for Scotland pay Dr. Blaxall £105 per annum for a certain quantity of lymph. The lymph is prepared at the laboratory at Chelsea, but as I have previously stated, the cost of its production and preparation is borne by Dr. Blaxall. He is not required to devote his whole time to his duties under my Department, and as the arrangement above referred to does not interfere with those duties and was desired by the Local Government Board for Scotland, my Department offered no objection to it.
§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Lord Advocate in view of the fact that the Local Government Board for Scotland have paid Dr. Cadell of Edinburgh £15 14s. 3d. for 419 tubes of vaccine lymph, will he state what facilities Dr. Cadell has for its production; and why glycerinated calf lymph is not used for the whole of the work of parochial vaccinators.
(Answered by Mr. A. Graham Murray.) I am informed that Dr. Cadell, as superintendent of vaccination at the New Town Dispensary, Edinburgh, collects vaccine lymph from the arms of children vaccinated by him, and hitherto has had no difficulty in supplying all the lymph required by the Central Vaccine Institution for Scotland. To the second part of the hon. Member's Question the answer is that there are a few parochial vaccinators who prefer humanised vaccine lymph, and they are supplied with it accordingly.