§ 73. Mr. CROOKSasked the President of the Local Government Board whether, according to information supplied by the medical officer of health to the Port of London Sanitary Authority, the four cases of small-pox received on 9th March from the liner "Gloucestershire" all occurred in vaccinated and revaccinated persons; and, seeing that these facts point to the conclusion that in the matter of small-pox infection the vaccinated and revaccinated are a source of danger to the unvaccinated, what steps he proposes to take?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. Herbert Lewis)I am informed that the four patients referred to had all been successfully vaccinated in infancy, but that none of them had been successfully revaccinated. I am advised that the conclusion indicated in the latter part of the question is not well founded.