§ Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the inquest held at Liverpool on 20th January upon the body of an infant named Donald Hardy, whose death was attributed by the verdict of the jury to vaccination; and whether his medical officers have any explanation to offer as to why Government lymph, which was used in this case, should have led to this result?
Sir H. YOUNG:Yes, Sir. I have made inquiries into this case, and I am advised that there is no doubt that this child died from generalised vaccinia, a very rare sequel of vaccination, which is explicable only on the assumption of a peculiar susceptibility of the individual to the vaccine. The same batch of lymph had been used for at least 1,200 other vaccinations without ill effect.