§ SIR MAURICE LEVY (Leicestershire, Loughborough)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether forms of declaration of 800 conscientious objection to vaccination were supplied to all registrars in England and Wales on or before 1st September 1907; whether these forms contained instructions to the registrars that they should be handed to persons registering births taking place after the 31st day of August 1907; whether it has come to his notice that a few registrars have not handed these forms to persons registering births during the four months from 1st September 1907 to 31st December 1907; and whether he will say what action he proposes to take in the matter.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns) Forms were supplied to the registrars in the month of September with a view to their being given to every informant of a birth registered on and after 1st October. The forms applied to births so registered if they occurred on or after the 1st September. I find that the Registrar-General only knows of two cases of the kind mentioned by my hon. friend, in addition to the one referred to in his previous Question. These cases were satisfactorily settled by forms being given to the informants by direction of the Registrar General. No other cases have come under my notice, and the matter does not seem to call for any action on my part.