– in the House of Commons am ar 18 Mehefin 1924.
Mr John Black
, Harborough
asked the Minister of Health the number of medically certified deaths due to vaccination for each year, 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923; and the number of medically certified deaths due to small-pox in each of the aforesaid years?
Mr John Wheatley
, Glasgow Shettleston
As the answer is necessarily rather long, I propose, with permission, to circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
The available records do not permit of the deaths in question being distinguished as between those registered upon medical certificate alone, those registered upon the coroner's certificate after inquest—with or without medical certificate—and those registered upon neither medical certificate nor coroner's certificate after inquest. Of the totals given below, some were doubtless registered after inquest, though few, if any, are likely to have been wholly uncertified.
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