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The Lambeth Council took no action in regard to the letter,
but approved of the following resolutions submitted by the
Salford Corporation in a letter dated October 15th, 1905, and
ordered copies of the same to be forwarded to the Prime Minister,
the President of the Local Government Board, and to the Health
Authorities of all the large towns :—
(a) It is desirable that the practice of vaccination should
be controlled by the Public Health Authority, as the
consequences of any failure have to be borne by them.
(b) The cost of vaccination under the present Act has been
made unnecessarily heavy, and in any further legislation
it should be respectfully urged that the scale of
remuneration should be modified, and in the case of
large towns that a Medical Vaccination Officer should
be appointed at a fixed salary, who should devote the
whole of his time to the duties of vaccination.
A special report dealing with the subject-matter of the Hackney
Borough Council's and Salford Corporation's letters will be found
on page 87 of the Appendix to this report.
Vaccinated Veai.
During 1905, official objection has been raised by the Borough
Councils and others to the use, as food for human consumption,
of vaccinated veal, i.e. the carcases of calves vaccinated for lymph
at the Local Government Board Vaccine Station ; and suggesting
that all such carcases should be destroyed—the charge upon the
Exchequer for the destruction being estimated at £4000 per
annum. There is no scientific evidence to show that the carcases
of animals used for the production of lymph are thereby rendered
unfit for food—the carcases being, moreover, thoroughly examined
by a veterinary surgeon before being allowed to be sold for food.
The Lambeth Council, however, on September 14th, 1905,
condemned the Local Government Board "for permitting the
sale of the carcases of animals for human food, which are known
to have had a disease communicated to them for the purpose of
procuring vaccine lymph."