§ Mr. LUPTON (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)To ask the President of the Local Government Board how many persons have been received into local prisons for offences against the Vaccination Acts each year since 1873.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I beg leave to answer this Question. It is not possible to give this information exactly. From a Return laid before this House in June 1881 it appears that from. 1st January 1868 to 31st July 1879, 138 853 persons were imprisoned for offences against the Vaccination Acts. From a similar Return published in 1890 the number imprisoned between 31st July 1879 and 8th August 1889 appears to have been 113. For further details reference should be made to these Returns: For the last eight years the figures were as follows:—
| Year to 31st March, 1900 | 37 |
| Year to 31st March, 1901 | 44 |
| Year to 31st March, 1902 | 36 |
| Year to 31st March, 1903 | 56 |
| Year to 31st March, 1904 | 106 |
| Year to 31st March, 1905 | 80 |
| Year to 31st March, 1806 | 58 |
| Year to 31st March, 1907 | 9 |