HC Deb 30 January 1940 vol 356 c991W
Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health why the case of the boy, aged 18 years, included in the account of eight cases of post-vaccinal encephalitis reported in 1938 in the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry for that year, page 19, was not included amongst those in regard to which death certificates were received in 1938 on which death was attributed wholly or in part to vaccination or vaccinia as given in his answer of 24th April, 1938?

Mr. Elliot

The death certificate of the boy, age 18 years, to which the hon. Member refers did not state that death was attributable wholly or in part to vaccination or vaccinia, but gave the cause of death as "encephalitis." The case was afterwards discovered to have followed vaccination.