HC Deb 15 April 1907 vol 172 cc603-4
*MR. LUPTON

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if the Local Government Board Order of the 18th October, 1898, Third Schedule, Section No. 7, which states that in all ordinary cases of primary vaccination the public vaccinator must aim at producing four separate good-sized vesicles or groups of vesicles not less than half an inch from one another, and that the total area of vesiculation resulting from the vaccination should not be less than half a square inch, is still in force, or have the medical advisers of the Local Government Board come to the conclusion that there is no advantage in large vesiculation; and, if so, will he issue a fresh Order.

MR. JOHN BURNS

The instruction in the Order is still in force, and the medical advisers of the Local Government Board do not recommend that it should be altered. They have not come to any conclusions in this matter opposed to the views expressed in paragraphs 294, 295 and 297 of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination.

*MR. LUPTON

Is it not the fact that Dr. Copeland of the Local Government Board has stated that the formation of large marks or any marks is not essential to good vaccination, and that the marks are caused by organisms other than the vaccine microbe.

MR. JOHN BURNS

I must not be held responsible for any medical opinion.