§ 87. Mr. BARNESasked the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the fact 361 that Mrs. Wallis, of Plymouth, on 28th January, 1913, before a Plymouth magistrate, made a declaration of conscientious objection under the Vaccination Act, 1907, as her husband was serving on one of His Majesty's ships, in respect to a child born on 5th October, 1912; that, as the vaccination officer refused to acknowledge this, the father of the infant also made a declaration on 1st February aboard his ship before the chaplain, who said he was eligible to sign such declaration, but that this form was rejected by the vaccination officer; and, seeing that where the father of a child is not in a position to make the prescribed declaration the mother is the responsible person so to do, will he notify the vaccination officer to that effect?
§ Mr. BURNSMy attention has been drawn to this case, and I am in communication with the vaccination officer with regard to it.