§ MR. LUPTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the Surgeon-General to the Government of Bombay, in his instructions to vaccinators, orders that vaccination shall be made with four crosses on each shoulder; that calves, lanced at every inch all over the body, are wheeled in a hand truck from station to station about the city of Bombay, so that children may be vaccinated direct from the calf; and that this system produces violent inflammation, which sometimes causes death; whether the lymph with which the calves are originally vaccinated comes from London; and whether these practices rule in other Presidencies in India.
§ MR. JOHN ELLISThe Secretary of State has not seen the instructions referred to, and he has no report as to improper treatment of the calves employed. Fresh calf lymph is used in a largo but decreasing number of the vaccinations performed in Bombay City, and the percentage of success in primary vaccinations with this lymph is very high indeed; no deaths from this cause have been reported. Glycerinated lymph has 657 on some occasions been procured from England, and has been tried on calves with excellent results. In Bombay, as in other provinces of India, rapid progress has been made towards the substitution of preserved vaccine, prepared by moans of chloroform, for the fresh lymph.