HC Deb 18 November 1938 vol 341 cc1222-3W
Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health whether he has received details of the case of smallpox recently found when a ship called at Gibraltar, the patient being an American doctor; and whether he has details as to his vaccinal condition?

Mr. Elliot

Particulars of this case have been given to my Department, though I am advised that the particulars indicate that the illness from which the patient was suffering may not have been smallpox. I am informed that the patient was successfully vaccinated against smallpox in childhood, and that he has been vaccinated on several subsequent occasions without result.