§ Mr. Viantasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that vaccination failed to protect allied military personnel in Egypt against smallpox for even two months and that there is no proof that inoculation protects against typhus, fever, cholera or yellow fever; and if he will, before ratifying the International Sanitary Conventions recently agreed to in Washington, make provision for objectors to vaccination and inoculation and draw the attention of other Governments, who are parties to these Conventions, to the fact that numbers of the people from this country object to such operations.
§ Lord DunglassAs regards the first part of the Question I would refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War. With regard to the remainder of the Question, as stated in the reply given on 4th May to the hon. Member for Bradford Central (Mr. Leach), the International Sanitary Conventions, 1944, did not require ratification and are already in force.