§ 66. Mr. GROVESasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the refusal of certain London magistrates to take statutory declarations under the Vaccination Act, 1907; and whether he has taken action in the cases that have been brought to his notice?
§ Captain HACKINGIn the case of Metropolitan Police Magistrates two complaints of the nature referred to have been made to my right hon. Friend within the last year, and in both instances he found on inquiry that the facts were inaccurately represented and that there had been no refusal on the part of the magistrate. Complaints of the conduct of individual Justices of the Peace other than Stipendiary Magistrates are a matter for the Lord Chancellor rather than for my Department.
§ Mr. PALINGWhere there is a genuine case of a man refusing to sign these application forms will the Under-Secretary state what the procedure is?
§ Captain HACKINGThe hon. Member must communicate with the Lord Chancellor.
§ 46. Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the fatal case of small-pox from King Henry's Road, Hampstead, removed to the Dartford small-pox hospital, was a woman who had been vaccinated in infancy and re-vaccinated at the age of 11 years; and whether he can state the source of infection in this case?
§ Sir K. WOODMy right hon. Friend is informed that woman, who was 40 years old at the time of death, was said by her mother to have been unsuccessfully vaccinated in infancy, and was not re-vaccinated at the age of 11, her history in that respect having been confused with that of her sister. The source of infection has not been traced.