§ Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health if he will give statistics, with such approximate accuracy as the available information permits, to the House, showing the proportion of the population then living which had been vaccinated at public expense in each of the years 1852, 1853, 612W 1854, 1871, 1872, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1922, 1923 and 1924, if figures for that year are available, and the number of deaths from small-pox in each year; and the number of cases of supposed small-pox notified in each year, beginning with 1892?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThere are no statistics available showing what proportion of the population living in the years mentioned in the question had been vaccinated at public expense, but I would refer the hon. Member to the figures given him on the 7th April last as to the percentage of vaccinations to births, and the numbers of deaths from small-pox during each of the years 1872 to 1924. The deaths from small-pox during the years 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1871 numbered 7,320, 3,151, 2,808, and 23,062, respectively. As regards the last part of the question, particulars of the numbers of cases of small-pox notified are available only for the years 1911 onward, and the figures (excluding port sanitary cases) are as follow:
1911 … … … … 265 1912 … … … … 111 1913 … … … … 90 1914 … … … … 57 1915 … … … … 78 1916 … … … … 135 1917 … … … … 6 1913 … … … … 51 1919 … … … … 262 1920 … … … … 243 1921 … … … … 311 1922 … … … … 967 1923 … … … … 2,477 1924 … … … … 3,757 It should be understood that these figures represent net notifications only. They have not been subjected to the corrections and additions set forth in the small-pox section of the Annual Reports of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health.