65. Mr. CHANCELLORasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is aware that, on objecting to be vaccinated a Territorial belonging to the 24th County of London Regiment was recently court-martialled for disobeying a battalion order; and whether he will take steps to prevent pressure of this kind from being applied to deprive Territorial recruits of the exemption to what they are by law entitled?
§ Mr. TENNANTI am not aware of the circumstances mentioned. On the other part of the question I have nothing to add to the answer given on the 26th August.
68. Mr. CHANCELLORasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that typhoid is a disease due to insanitation and preventible by proper sanitary measures, that anti-typhoid inoculation produces illness which disables men for days, and would therefore weaken our forces, that many men object to being inoculated, whilst medical opinion is divided as to its value, he will refrain from enforcing it upon unwilling soldiers, thus leaving them fit for their duties in the field?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe hon. Member is under a misapprehension—anti-typhoid inoculation, whilst encouraged on account of its undoubtedly immense value, is not compulsory in the British Army.