§ Mr. Viantasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the importance of establishing the fact, and the date, of the performance of immunising inoculations against diphtheria, he will direct all local authorities that arrange for immunisation to require all medical practitioners who perform the operations and are paid for them out of public funds to give a certificate to the parents or guardians of immunised children setting forth the number of inoculations given and the date, or dates, on which they were made, and to see that records of all such operations are entered in a register that shall be opened to the public for search on payment of fees similar to those prescribed in the case of smallpox vaccinations?
§ Mr. E. BrownNo, Sir. I do not think that requirements which obtain under statute in the case of vaccination against smallpox, which is compulsory upon parents, are necessarily appropriate in the case of the service conducted by local authorities for voluntary immunisation against diphtheria.