Report from the Select Committee on the Vaccination Act (1867) : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Vaccination Act (1867)
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- 1871
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on the Vaccination Act (1867) : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Report, 1871—continued. Simon, John, F.R.S. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. Greater liability of Paris than of London to a small-pox epidemic, 3383 Approval of the proposal of Mr. Candlish for only two penalties, the first to be nominal, 3384- 3386. 339°- 35°<5« 3510 Regulations of the Privy Council for pieventing the per- formance of public vaccination by incompetent assistants, 3387-3389 Further state- ment upon the cpiestion of the Prussian Government recommending re-vaccination at the age of two years, 3396, 3397 Decided dissent from the opinion that the general mortality is less when there is an epidemic of small-pox 3398. Limited experience of witness in the practice of vaccination, 3399-3403 Compulsion upon the local authorities, or boards ot guardians, since 1867, to enforce the law, whereas such enforcement was optional with them under the Act of 1857 ; 3426-3431 Defence of the strong language applied by witness to the agitators against vaccination, 3437- 3444. 3541 Sufficient security for pure supplies of lymph, otheiwise Government would not be justified in enforcing its use, 3445-3458 Steps taken for providing com- petent public vaccinators, and for ensuring excellence of vaccination generally, the law of compulsion rot being otherwise justifiable, 3459-3478. Further examination relative to ihe question of conveyance of syphilis, or of other disease, witness submitting that any mischief thus caused is ton infinitesimal to be allowed to set aside the great blessing of compulsory vaccination, 3479-3507 Less objection to be urged against piimary vaccination than against re-vaccination, whereas the former only is compulsory, 3485 Denial that erysipelas often results from vacci- nation, 3485. 3507 Denial that tubercular disease or consumption is communicated at all, 3486, 3487. 3532. Comment upon the so-called “ martyrs” to the law ; very few to be found, 3503-3505. 3.508-3510 Expediency of the imprisonment of parents in the event of their failing to protect their children, and of these contracting small-pox in consequence, 3505 Statistics relative to the working of the Act in Leeds, Wigan, and other large towns, showing how little popular resistance there is to the enforcement of the law, 3508. Facility of explaining certain cases of disea-e, as adduced by Mr. Covington and others, without attributing them to vaccination, 351 1-3516 Less protection by vacci- nation than by small-pox itself, the former being the disease in a modified form, 3517- 3521 Occasional concurrence of small-pox and cow-pox further adverted to, 3522 Belief as to vaccination not causing badness of teeth, 3524 Opinion that no injury arises from inoperative vaccination, 3525, 3526. Doubt as to the expenditure on sanitaiy improvements having kept pace with the increase of population, 3527 Further dissent from any statistics professing to show in the aggregate that the adult death-rate has diminished and the infantile death-rate increased, 3528-3532 Opinion as to the type of small-pox in any locality not being affected by the number who contract the contagion, 3533-3538. Further reference to the epidemic in Holland as proving that the disease is not a de- clining one, 3539, 3540- Conclusion as to Humboldt not having expressed any opinion against vaccination in a certain letter to Mr. Gibbs, 3543, 3544 Occasional instances of lymph being leceived at the Vaccine Institution with a linge of blood ; this however is never circulated, and vaccinators who supply it are guilty of carelessness, 3545-3547. 355°~3553* Great evil of an abolition of compulsory vaccination as sure to cause many thousands of infantile deaths annually, and greatly to promote the development of small-pox epidemics, 3548, 3549. Fifth Examination.]—Comparative sense in which witness speaks of the vaccinated population of London as a “protected ” class, the “ unprotected” being those who have had neither small-pox nor vaccination, 5795, 5796. Witness submits a paper {App. 440) setting forth the principal suggestions proposed by him for the amendment of the Vaccination Act, 5797. Simon, Mr. Extracts from papers prepared in 1857 by Mr. Simon, as medical officer of the General Board of Health, with reference to the history and practice of vaccination; argument and statistics comprised therein in great detail, in proof of the great value of the practice, App. 343 et seq. Extract from report of Mr. Simon in 1850 relative to the question of the conveyance of syphilis in the vaccine ymph ; arguments with a view to the refutation of this theory, App. 418-425. Skin Disease. See Eruptions on the Skin. Erysipelas. Small-pox 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24975424_0540.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
