§ MR. LUPTONI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if vaccination in Ceylon is done with calf lymph or with human lymph.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Colonel SEELY,) Liverpool, AbercrombyThe Medical Reports for 1906 and 1907 state that glycerinated calf lymph was supplied in sufficient quantities to all parts of the island from the Central Calf Vaccine Depôt at Colombo.
§ MR. LUPTONI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if his attention has been called to an alleged case of forcible vaccination by a municipal vaccinator at Kollupitiya, in Ceylon; if the municipal vaccinators are paid according to the number of cases they vaccinate; and if he will order the prosecution of the municipal vaccinator for assault.
§ COLONEL SEELYI have seen a letter in a Ceylon newspaper, but I have no further information on the subject, nor am I aware how the vaccinators are paid. The Answer to the last Question is in the negative, but I will communicate my hon. friend's Question to the Governor.