§ Dr. Broughtonasked the Minister of Health (1) if he will make British B.C.G. vaccine available for five-year-old children, and also for newly-born infants of tuberculous parents, now that there is evidence of this vaccine producing a high degree of immunity against tuberculosis without causing ill effects:
(2) whether, in view of the recent favourable report of the Medical Research Council on the efficiency of a British B.C.G. vaccine, he will extend the scheme for the vaccination of 14-year-old children to cover all children of that age.
§ Mr. TurtonLocal health authorities are already able to offer B.C.G. vaccination to any person known to have been in contact with tuberculous infection and to all 13-year-old children. I am about to ask authorities to consider making fuller use of their powers in relation to 13-year-old children, but I do not consider it advisable to go further than this at the moment.