§ MR. LUPTON (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if his attention has been called to the case of a boy who died in Croydon on the 29th April last as the result of vaccination; if he is aware that the case was investigated by 925 Dr. Copeman, of the Local Government Board; that the child had sores on the head, face and arms, and lingered in agony for three months; will he say if he is still supplying public vaccinators with the same class of lymph; and if he will lay Dr. Copeman's Report upon the Table.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI am aware of the case referred to, though J do not know that the child lingered in agony for three months, nor had I been informed of his death. The ease was investigated by Dr. Copeman and several medical men. Twenty other cases were vaccinated with the same lymph as this child, and, so far as was ascertained, the case in question was the only one in which the child subsequently had sores. These sores appear to have been, in fact, "bromide rash," and to have been due, not to vaccination, but to doses of bromide of potassium administered by the mother on account of the fits from which the child suffered. It is estimated that 178 grains of the drug were given to him. Dr. Copeman's Report is a confidential document, and I could not undertake to lay it on the Table.
§ MR. LUPTONDoes the right hon. Gentleman consider a death rate of 5 per cent. in vaccination cases trifling.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSThe percentage was not asked for. I must have notice.
§ MR. LUPTONThe right hon. Gentle man has spoken of one in twenty as if it were a trifling matter.