Compulsory vaccination : report of a public meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on ... October 19, 1870.

  • Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League.
Date:
1870
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Compulsory vaccination : report of a public meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on ... October 19, 1870. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

    22/28 page 20
    At page 178, InDepaul's seventh and eighth oxperimentB, for example, the calves suffered severely from diarrhoea.' Another passage, page 178, shows that diarrhcea is an accompaniment of the process ; the health of the calf, however, affects the character of the eruption, for it has been observed that ivhen diarrhoea hapimis in the course of its evolution, the pustules, although they rise as in the healthy calf, are smaller in size, and less full. And thus infant mortality is increased by the infliction of a disease of the brute creation, which in the course of its evolution, causes diarrhoea. The medical press has lately teemed Math articles call- ing attention to the prevalence of small-pox, in Paris, it is stated that small-pox prevails there because vaccmation is not compulsory. While it is quite true that the Legislature of France has passed no such disgraceful and tyrannical vaccination acts, as those which exist in England, —yet vaccination is almost universally adopted. IVIi'. Smee, the surgeon to the Bank of England, and examiner of candidates for hfe assurance, lately, in a letter to the Times newspaper, stated that his large experience enabled him to state that to find a Frenchman unvaccinated was an exception. The 12th report of the medical officer of the Privy Council tells us that in France it has been decreed, under the direction of the Academy of Medicine, by ministers, that No infant should enter an orphan asylum, an hospital, a primary school, a lyceum, or a government college without a certificate, of vaccination. The Army and Navy of France are mccinated, and vaccination is enjoined, if not enforced, on all who hold government situations. Besides this, it is forced upon the poor by a rule that those 7vho refuse to have their children vaccinated, shall have no jniblic assistance.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3