§ Mr. GROVESasked the Secretary of State for Air whether it is still an obligation upon recruits for the Air Force that they shall be vaccinated before actual acceptance; and, seeing that as the proportion of persons vaccinated has
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Country. Flight. Engine. Date. Holland Amsterdam-Batavia (about 9,500 miles) Rolls Royce Eagle IX October and November, 1924. Russia Moscow-Pekin-Shanghai (about 5,000 miles). Siddeley Puma June-July-August, 1925. Sweden Malmo-De Mok-Felixstowe and back (about 1,500 miles). Eagle IX June, 1925. Norway Spitzbergen-81 degrees N. and back (about 1,400 miles). Eagle IX May and June, 1925. Spain Marina di Pisa (Italy) to Mar Chica (Morocco) about 1,000 miles.) Eagle August and September, 1924. Italy Attempted Round the World Flight (Abandoned after approximately 3,545 miles had been covered). Eagle July and August, 1924. Portugal Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro (4,352 miles). (Machine was damaged beyond repair when alighting at St. Paul's Rock, after completing 2,352 miles, the flight being resumed with other machines). Eagle March-June, 1922. Belgium Brussels to Kinslasa (Congo) (about 5,000miles.) Eagle IX and Puma February to April, 1925. France Toulon to Casablanca (about 1,500 miles). Bristol Jupiter built under licence by the Gnome Rhone Company. 1925. Argentina Amsterdam to Tokio (about 10,000 miles.) Napier Lion July-October, 1924. been reduced so the disease of small-pox has correspondingly decreased, and that members of the Air Force live generally under sanitary conditions, will he remove any obligation to vaccination if such exists?
§ Sir S. HOAREIn answer to the first part of the question, recruits are still required to declare on attestation their willingness to be vaccinated. As regards the second part, I am not prepared to alter the existing practice.