§ Captain MACMILLANasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the recent outbreak of small-pox in the Easington Union of the County of Durham has cost the ratepayers a sum of 49W £16,000, equivalent to a rate of 8d. in the £, and that in every case it was proved that the person attacked by the disease had either not been vaccinated at all or had not been vaccinated within the previous 15 years; and whether he is prepared to introduce legislation on this subject?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI have no official information as to the cost of this outbreak. The returns made to my Department show that no person under the age of 15 years contracted smallpox who had been vaccinated prior to infection. As regards the last part of the question, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given on this subject on the 24th November to the hon. and gallant Member for Basingstoke (Sir A. Holbrook).