§ MR. LUPTONTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether he has received a letter drawing his attention to a suggestion of Surgeon N. Howard 2081 Mummery, M.R.C.S., R.N., that in the near future men, on joining the service, will be vaccinated against syphilis at the same time and in the same way as they are now vaccinated against small pox, and asking for an assurance that no man on entering the Army shall incur the risk of compulsory blood-poisoning with syphilis passed through apes; whether he gave that assurance, or, if not, whether he can state why it was withheld; and whether he is willing to lay the whole correspondence relating to this subject upon the Table.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) A letter to this effect was received by the War Office, and the writer was informed that no proposal of the nature indicated therein had been under consideration in the War Office. I have nothing to add to this reply, and I have no intention of laying correspondence of this character upon the Table of the House.