§ SIR WILLIAM COLLINS (St. Pancras, W.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether either or both of the recruits Geall and Morris of the Cold-streams Guards, who died last month at Caterham, had been recently vaccinated, whether it is in accord with Government instructions to public vaccinators that the operation should not be performed during the prevalence of infectious disease in the neighbourhood.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Private Geall was vaccinated with twenty-four other men on the 6th ultimo, and private Morris with twenty-one other men on the 13th ultimo. All the other men have done quite well, and the arms of Geall and Morris were examined immediately after they had been put to bed, and found in each case to be normal. The regulations to which my hon. friend alludes are no doubt those of the Local Government Board which apply only to the vaccination of infants.