HC Deb 17 December 1943 vol 395 c1822W
Mr. Leach

asked the Secretary of State for War 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 infection, he will cease the routine vaccination of young recruits to the Army who have not been vaccinated in infancy and defer any question of vaccination until there is some prospect of their going abroad and stop the routine vaccination of all recruits with regard to whom it is unlikely that they will ever go abroad?

Sir J. Grigg

No, Sir. There appears to be no reason for changing the present general procedure for voluntary vaccination.