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were expounded by the President of the Local Government Board.
Arm to arm vaccination is to be abandoned and vaccination with
gly???erinated call lymph is to be substituted. Calf lymph mixed with
glycerine has now became universal in great continental centres, and it
is found that admixture of the lymph with glycerine destroys all extraneous
microbes without impairing the vaccinal activity of the lymph,
so that there is security against possible risk of inoculation of other
morbific germs. Vaccination is to be domiciliary, the vaccinator will
be required to attend at the house of the child as in Scotland, and no
parent is in future to be bound to submit his child to vaccination by
any other means than calf lymph, and only calf lymph vaccinations
will be recognised in the compulsory enforcement of vaccination.
Vaccine stations will be unneccessary. The statutory age limit is to
be extended from three to twelve months: the Royal Commission had
reported in favour of an extension from three to six months.
Repeated penalties are to be abolished: this was a recommendation
made by the Commission in their ''ad interim" report. It will be
remembered that the majority of the Commissioners in their final
report advised that those who had a conscientious objection to
vaccination might be exempted from their legal obligations by
making a statutory declaration of the grounds of their objection, but
Mr. Chaplin stated that he was unable to accept the recommendation
that any one objecting to vaccination may escape the obligation by
simply making a statutory declaration to that effect.