– in the House of Commons at on 21 March 1939.
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether applicants for posts in the Civil Service have still to make a statutory declaration of objection to vaccination or a written statement of objection, or whether unvaccinated applicants are admitted without being required to state their objection?
In the case of established appointments to the Home Civil Service, the Civil Service Commissioners do not require a candidate to be vaccinated or to make a statutory declaration or written statement of objection to vaccination. In the case of posts abroad, the Commissioners do not regard candidates as constitutionally fitted for appointment unless in the view of the medical examiner they are sufficiently protected against small-pox. As regards the appointment of industrial employés, the position is broadly as set out by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War in a reply to the hon. Member on 1st March, 1938.
How can a candidate be efficiently protected against small-pox when he has to go to a hot country where the conditions may be filthy?