§ Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALDasked the President of the Board of Education whether the London County Council has decided that unvaccinated children shall be excluded from the elementary schools on a certificate of the medical officer; whether the Board of Education proposes 582W to allow the medical officer to examine children to discover whether they have been vaccinated or not; and whether, in the event of parents declining to vaccinate their children, the Board will permit prosecutions because the children are not attending school?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI am not aware that any such decision has been taken by the London County Council. The Board are, of course, unable to prevent a school medical officer from observing, in the course of his examination, whether children bear vaccination marks or not. But the question of vaccination is not included in the Schedule of Particulars, attention to which the Board regard as constituting the minimum of efficient medical inspection. The Board have no jurisdiction either to promote or prevent prosecutions for non-attendance at school?
Mr. POINTERasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the vaccination officer of the Brentford union has written to the various education committees in his district suggesting that the school medical officers should examine the children attending the elementary schools to ascertain their vaccinal condition; and whether such action is authorised by any Order of the Board?
§ Mr. BURNSI have no information on the subject. The vaccination officer, if he has written as suggested, has not done so in pursuance of any Order of the Local Government Board.