An argument for and against the compulsory vaccination of school children : Dr. C. N. Haskell, representing the Bridgeport Medical Association, in the affirmative and Major Thomas Boudren, representing the Bridgeport Anti-Vaccination Society, in the negative ; "Compulsory vaccination is the introduction of disease, by law, into the healthy body."

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