HC Deb 08 June 1904 vol 135 cc1074-5
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether Dr. Cadell, as superintendent of vaccination at the new town dispensary, Edinburgh, still collects vaccine lymph from the arms of children vaccinated by him, and thus supplies humanised lymph to the Central Vaccine Institution for Scotland; and, seeing that the last report of the medical superintendent of that institution shows that the percentage of successful vaccination with glycerinated calf lymph is higher than the percentage of success with humanised lymph, will the question of using glycerinated calf lymph for the whole of the work of parochial vaccinators in Scotland be considered, especially having regard to the fact that the use of humanised lymph has been widely condemned?

*MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAY

I am informed that Dr. Cadell still supplies humanised lymph to the Central Vaccine Institution for Scotland. The difference in the percentage of successes between glycerinated calf lymph and humanised lymph does not appear to constitute sufficient ground for ceasing to supply humanised lymph, which is still in demand.