§ Mr. Viantasked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in view of the policy of the Ministry of Health in regard to primary vaccination of adolescents and young adults to the effect that it is not generally expedient to press for the primary vaccination of adolescents in this country unless they have been in personal contact with a case of smallpox or directly exposed to smallpox infection, he will cease the routine vaccination of young recruits to the R.A.F. who have not been vaccinated in infancy and defer any question of vaccination until there is some prospect of their going abroad; and whether he will give orders to stop the routine vaccination of all recruits with regard to whom it is unlikely that they will ever go abroad?
§ Captain BalfourRoyal Air Force recruits below the age of 18 are not normally vaccinated. For recruits above that age, whether they proceed overseas or not, the ordinary procedure for voluntary vaccination is followed. I see no reason for making any change.