§ MR. LUPTON (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board with reference to the twenty-eight deaths recorded in the Registrar-General's 67th Report for 1904, as due to cow pox or other effects of vaccination, whether any compensation has been given to the survivors by the State; whether provision can be made in the Estimates for such compensation to be paid in future cases of deaths from this cause; and, if not, whether he will consider the desirability of inserting a clause providing for such compensation in his promised Vaccination Bill.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS, Battersea)No compensation has been given in the cases referred to. I could not give any promise that provision for compensation in any such cases would be proposed either in the Estimates or by a Bill. I may add that the twenty-eight deaths alluded to in the Question include not only those stated by medical practitioners or by coroners' juries to be duo to vaccination, but also those in which vaccination appeared from the medical certificates to be in any way connected with the cause of death.