§ Mr. LUPTONasked the President of the Local Government Board whether two re-vaccinated nurses at the Cossham Hospital, Bristol, recently took small-pox within two years of revaccination; and if he will inform the House from what factory the virus used in revaccinating these nurses had been obtained?
§ Mr. BURNSTwo nurses at the hospital, while attending cases of small-pox, had slight attacks of an illness which was thought to show the initial symptoms of small-pox. Neither had an eruption of any kind, and both were well within three or four days. They had been revaccinated within two years, but I am unable to say from what source the lymph used was obtained.
§ Mr. LUPTONasked the President of the Local Government Board whether during 884 the late outbreak of small-pox in Bristol the many unvaccinated children in the city showed any special liability to take the disease?
§ Mr. BURNSAny comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated children in relation to this matter should be made in respect of those children only who were exposed to infection. At Bristol the persons who suffered from small-pox or were in contact with them were so carefully supervised that few unvaccinated children were so exposed. Of the children under 14 who were exposed to infection nine were attacked by the disease. Of these nine, two had been vaccinated. Both attacks were abortive. The remaining seven children were unvaccinated, except that two of them were vaccinated during the incubation of the disease. Of these seven three died, all of whom suffered from confluent or black small-pox.
§ Mr. LUPTONWere the two who died vaccinated during the time of the incubation of the disease?