§ Major ASTORasked the President of the Local Government Board how many persons who were notified as having contracted small-pox during April and May had been vaccinated; how many had been recently revaccinated; how many had never been vaccinated; and whether any cases were fatal?
§ Mr. LONGDuring the nine weeks ended the 27th May, 1916, seventy-nine civil cases of small-pox were notified in England and Wales. As to two of these cases I have not received information as to their vaccinal condition; of the remaining seventy-seven cases, sixty-two had been vaccinated, and fifteen were unvaccinated. No person contracted small-pox subsequent to recent revaccination, but twelve of the cases had been revaccinated after exposure to small-pox infection and during the incubation period of the disease. Seven cases are known to have been fatal, and of these three were unvaccinated and four were stated to have been vaccinated in infancy, their ages at death being twenty-seven, thirty-seven, forty-three, and sixty-three respectively.