§ 67. Mr. Awberyasked the Minister of Health if the supply of poliomyelitis vaccine and Salk vaccine is now sufficient to met British requirements; what proportion of school children have so far been inoculated against this disease; and when he expects 100 per cent. to be inoculated.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithPurchases of poliomyelitis vaccine, including Salk, are being kept under constant review in the light of the number of registrations for vaccination. Separate figures for school children are not available, but at the end86W defectives and detained in mental hospitals under Section 1 (d) of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, as moral defectives, in view of the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice in the case of Regina v. Head and the comments of the Lord Chief Justice on the possibility of other unlawful detentions; and, in view of the importance of this to the liberty of the subject, how many people are engaged on this task, and how long they have been so employed.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithSince this judgment senior officers of the Home Office and the Board of Control have made considerable progress with this review.