HC Deb 13 June 1944 vol 400 c1802W
Mr. Viant

asked the Minister of Health what percentage of infants born at Rugby have been exempted from vaccination or withheld from the operation in each of the years since 1928.

Mr. Willink

Of the children born in the Rugby Registration Sub-District (which comprises Rugby municipal borough and part of Rugby rural district) the following are proportions in respect of whom either statutory declarations of conscientious objection to vaccination were received, or vaccination was postponed on medical grounds.

Per cent.
1939 69
1940 57
1941 53
1942 51

It is regretted that corresponding records for earlier years are not available.