§ 101. Mr. WINGasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that Salisbury teachers have, during school hours, taken children to be inoculated against spotted fever; that in one school a roll of honour has been established bearing the names of those who have been inoculated; and will he state where in the Board's regulations such a proceeding is sanctioned?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Dr. Addison)I am aware that during the recent outbreak of spotted fever at Salisbury the local education authority, acting on the advice of the Medical Officer of Health (who is also a school medical officer), made arrangements for children whose parents wished them to be inoculated, but could not attend themselves, to be taken by the teachers. I understand that lists of the children to be inoculated were prepared, and that in one case the list was placed in a frame; but this can hardly be described as a roll of honour. I have no reason to think that the local education authority have acted unreasonably in connection with the matter.