§ Mr. KEIR HARDIEasked the Secretary for War whether he is aware that in January, 1911, the Regulations wore so amended as to forbid the vaccination and revaccination of the wives of soldiers of the British Army in India without their own consent; whether a similar regulation is in operation in the case of the wives of soldiers serving in the British Isles; and whether a similar regulation applies to the children of soldiers, unless the sanction of their fathers has been obtained?
§ Colonel SEELYThe reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, and to the second part in the negative. In reference to the last part of the question as regards India, the reply is in the affirmative and as regards the British Isles in the negative. Families of soldiers of the British Army must have been vaccinated before embarkation.