§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the President of the Local Government Board whether any vaccination officer in England and Wales is paid a fee for recording the date of the statutory declaration of objection to vaccination; and, if so, whether the fee paid is equal in amount to the fee for recording the certificate of successful vaccination?
§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that in September, 1908, the Local Government Board wrote to the Bristol Board of Guardians requesting them to again consider an application from their vaccination officers for extra remuneration, in consequence of their loss of income owing to the increase of the number of persons claiming exemption under the Vaccination Act, 1907, and that upon the guardians refusing to do so, on 2nd October, 1908, the Local Government Board again wrote requesting the guardians to consider awarding gratuities to the two officers who devoted their whole time; whether he is aware that, after further correspondence in July, 1912, the guardians informed the Local Government Board that they were prepared to pay to the two officers who devoted their whole time a salary suggested by the Local Government Board; whether the Bristol Board of Guardians have informed the Local Government Board that, as they are 1276W in no way responsible for the reduction of income sustained by these officers, they decline to admit any liability for compensation; and whether the Local Government Board have informed the vaccination officers concerned that they have given the question of their remuneration careful consideration, and have decided in all the circumstancs of the case, to consent to the proposal of the guardians; if so, what were the circumstances that these officers should not be paid the gratuity suggested by the Local Government Board?
§ Mr. BURNSI am fully aware of the circumstances of this case, and, after discussing the matter with the chairman and clerk of the board of guardians, I decided to sanction the proposal that the two officers should receive salaries of £150 and £130 per annum.
Mr. POINTERasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that Dr. Fenwick, one of the public vaccinators of the Croydon union, has been granted six months' leave of absence, and that Dr. O'Hagan, the public vaccinator for another ward in the same union, has been appointed as his deputy; whether this duplication of official positions meets with the sanction of the Board, seeing that there are plenty of other duly qualified doctors residing within the union; and whether he is aware that, on more than one occasion, medical inspectors of the board have investigated cases vaccinated by Dr. O'Hagan, in which it was alleged abnormal results had followed?
§ Mr. BURNSI am aware of the facts of this case, and have approved of the arrangements made by the guardians. My medical inspectors have investigated two cases in which abnormal results have been alleged to have followed vaccinations by Dr. O'Hagan. In neither ease did they consider that any blame attached to Dr. O'Hagan.
§ Mr. SUTTONasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that a certificate of death from small-pox, at Hinckley, in 1910, in which the vaccinal condition of the patient was described as doubtful, was accepted by the Registrar-General, though the entry in the hospital register shows that the man had two vaccination scars of an approximate area of 1⅜ square inches; whether the fourteen deaths from small-pox, out of 1277W the nineteen which occurred in 1910, described on the certificates of death as doubtful in regard to vaccination, are so described in the registers of the hospitals in which those patients were treated; and whether he will issue instructions that the condition as to vaccination shall be entered on all certificates of death from small-pox as it appears in the hospital registers?
§ Mr. BURNSI have been in communication with the Registrar-General on the subject. I learn that cases in which no information as to vaccinal condition has been given in the certificate of death have hitherto been grouped under the heading "Doubtful." But a modification of this arrangement has already been under consideration, and will be adopted in future.
— To British Dominions, Possessions and Protectorates. To all other Destinations. Total to all Destinations. 1900. 1911. 1900. 1911. 1900. 1911. Million £s Million £s. Million £s. Million £s Million £s. Million £s. United Kingdom 94.4 158.8 196.8 295.3 291.2 454.1 Germany 8.2 15.7 218.5 382.8 226.7 398.5 United States of America 33.5 74.9 252.0 344.5 285.5 419.4
1900. 1911. Million £s. Exports of Domestic Produce and Manufactures from Germany to the United States of America 21.6 31.5