VACCINATION.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13566, 6 November 1912, Page 4

VACCINATION.

(From our Parliamentary Corr 3spondent.)

Wellington, Nov. 5. "Early in this year," states the Chief Health Officer, in his annual report, "a. report was submitted to the effect that the vaccination law was practically a. dead letter in the Dominion, though the births were 25,354, only • 1078 vaccinations were performed, whereas the exemption certicfiates numbered 6754." In view of our increasing trade with the East he says this neglect on tho part of parents to have their children vaccinated becomes all tho more serious. The Dominion has had one or two warning** of the danger that it is incurring, e.g., The Knight of the- Garter during thopast year. It will not a Lav ays be possible to discover smallpox patients before they land in the country.