§ Mr. LUPTON (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty under what heading in the Estimates the cost of vaccinating and the cost of vaccine matter are included; and what is the amount of the cost of vaccination and the cost of vaccine matter.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) Vaccination of officers and men in His Majesty's Navy is carried out by naval medical officers as part of their ordinary duty, no additional cost being incurred on that account. Supplies of calf lymph for this purpose are obtained at the cost of Vote 3, Sub-head H, of the Navy Estimates, the annual expenditure being £300.