Third (-Fourth-Fifth) Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination; with minutes of evidence and appendices.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Vaccination.

Date:: 1890-1893

Credit: Third (-Fourth-Fifth) Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination; with minutes of evidence and appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$regarded, 12,434-7, 12,443; as to difierences in ditferent places in the amount of the costs and fines imposed under the Acts, 12,443; and that the law is not evenly enforced on all alike, 12,438-41, 12,484-6. Mr. Beurle's opinion as to the effect of repeated pro- ceedings under the Acts in respect of the same children, 12,463-8, 12,500-2, 12,521-3. Mr. C. H. Hopwood as to the decision in Pilcher v. Stafford (33 iaw Journal, Magistrates' Gases, page I IS) that, under the Vaccination Act of 1853 and the amending Act of 1861, a parent having been fined for neglecting to have a child vaccinated no further pro- ceedings could be taken, 12,922-3, 15,974-4«; and as to the decision in Allen v. VVorth.y {Law Reports, 5 Queens Bench, page 163) that, under Section 31 of the Yaccination Act of 1867, a parent having been fined for disobeying an order to have his child vacci- nated may be proceeded against from time to time as long as the child remains unvaccmated and under fourteen years of age, 12,923, 15,974-4ft._ Mr. Hop- wood as to prosecutions under the Vaccination Act pf 1867 prior to the passing of the Act of 1871, i5.974a-6. The discontinuance of prosecutions under the Vacci- nation Acts in the Leicester Union, 13,291, 13,295, 13,320-2, 13,335, 13,342, 13,345-51; 13,603-5, 13,613, 13,616,13,628,13,631; evidence of the Chief Constable of the Borough of Leicester as to proceedings under the Acts during the years 1881-6, 16,084-106, and particulars given by other witnesses as to the number of prosecutions in the Union prior to their discon- tinuance, 13,291-4, 13,303-51 ; 13,613, 13,628-9, 13,639-66; App. 414 (Table C.); App. 415 (Table 1). The absence at Leicester, during the period when defaulters under the Vaccination Acts were being prosecuted, of any repeated prosecutions in respect of the same children, 12,957 ; 13,418-21 ; 13,447; 13,541, 13,547 ; 14,006 ; 14,058 : 13,613,13,629, 13,642, 13,656-8. Statements, by witnesses, magistrates for the Boi'ough of Leicester who have adjudicated upon cases iinder the Vaccination Acts, as to the course taken by them with regard to the provisions of the Acts allowing exemption where there is a reasonable excuse, 12,941-4, 12,950-6. 12,958-66, 12,987-91; 13,024^8; 13,433. Mr. J. T. Biggs as to the returns made to the House of Commons of persons imj^risoned under the Acts, so far as relating to Leicester, 15,640- 61, 16,082-3. Statements by witnesses living or having lived in Leicester of Leicestershire as to their having refused to have their children or some of them vaccinated, and as to their having in consequence been proceeded against under the Vaccination Acts, owing to their belief that members of their families or other persons known to them have suffered ill efiects from vaccinalioo, 13,888-921; 13,923-47; 14,045-85; 14,087-121; 14,123-36 ; 14,139-48; (14,266- 303); 14,304-40; 14,386-420; 14,645-8; 14,713-68; 14,959-88 ; 14,999-15,054 ; 15,056-83 ; (16,108-38) ; 15,140-1 ; 17,973-80. Mr. J. T. Biggs as to cases where parents, on being proceeded against in Leicester under the Vaccination Acts, have stated in defence their belief that the illness or death of members of their families or other persons has been caused by vaccination, 13,717-44, 13,749-63, 13,765-89, 13,824- 31, 13,841-4, 15,229-38, 17,276-7; and as to other cases of the like nature where the parents' belief was held to be a reasonable excuse for the non-vaccination of their children in regard to whom the proceedings were taken, 13,743-8, 13,752, 13,766,16,392, 17,276-7. Particulars of the prosecutions of witnesses who have been repeatedly proceeded against, in respect of the same children, under the Vaccination Acts, 12,437-8, 12,521-3; 14,307, 14,313-9, 14,322-9, 14,338; li,713, 14,747, 14,761-2. Cases where witnesses have been imprisoned in default of payment of fines, 13,900-3, 13,911-7; 13,937-40; 14,001-3,14,015-6,14,020; 14,027- 43; 14,057-71,14,073-85; 14,098-101,14,104-6; 14,123- 9, 14,133; 14,139-48; 14,403,14,416_; other cases of such imprisonment mentioned by witnesses, 12,467- 70,12,505; 13,291; 13,410-1; 13,458-63. PUBLIC VACCINATORS: Mr. J. T. Biggs's opinion that Public Vaccinators do not, as a rule, carry out in full the instructions of the Local Government Board, 13,795, 13,807-16, 14,817, 14,821-3, 15,177-9, 16,218, 15,270-5, 15,290, 15,329. QUARANTINE (see ISOLATION ). RADCLIFPE, Mk. J. NETTEN: Report to the Local (government Board by Mr. J. Net- ten Radcliffe, on certain cases of erysipelas, follow- ing upon vaccination, in the Misterton district of the Gainsborough Union, Lincolnshire, and in adjoining districts of the same Union and of the East Retford Union (16th December 1876), App. 466. REDFEARN: Dr. Redfearn's reported cases of inoculation for the cow-pox referred to by Professor E. M. Crookshank, 11,192. REITER : Reiter's experiments in variolating cows referred to by Professor E. M. Crookshank, 12,292, 12,294 (note). RE-VACCINATION: References by Professor E. M. Crookshank to M. Colin's cases of small-pox occurring among re-vaccinated hospital attendants, 12,389-95, 12,419; to Mr. Mar- son's cases of immunity, 12,413-9; and to the com- parative immunity of medical men from small-pox, 12,396-9, 12,417-8. Professor Crookshank as to successful vaccination after previous vaccination, ■ 11,606-64, 11,704-26, 11,817-9, 11,884-902, 11,911, 11,915, 11,918, 11,923-53, 12,103-49, 12,151-6, 12,163; references by him to M. Lalagade's cases of re- vaccination, 11,606, 11,620-2, 11,642-3; to the cases mentioned by Pfeitfer, 11,606, 11,622,11,714-6 ; and to Layet's cases, 11,606-60, 11,704-15. 11,719-21, 11,724 -6, 11,817-20, 11,889-99, 11,916, 11,918, 12,103-4, 12,113-49, 12,162, 12,163, App. 407. Professor Crook- shank's opinion that the character and number of the vaccination cicatrices bear no relation to the susceptibility i') re-vaccination, 11,618, 11,642-3, 11,889-902,1 ], ■ U, 11,916,11,918,11,923-53,12,162-3; and as to whooheT' or not susceptibility to vaccination ia an indication of susceptibility to small-pox, 11,635, 11,650-6, 11,716-7, 11,722-3, 12,103-13, 12,119-21, 12,151-6. Dr. Gr. Cordent as to cases of small-pox observed by him to have occurred after re-vaccination, 12,553 ; his opinion as to the comparative immunity of medi- cal men from small-pox, 12,640-57, 12,669-73,12,733; and as to the amount of protection afforded by re-vaccination to attendants in small-pox hospitals, 12,778-9. [_And see Vaccination.~\ RICKETS: Case of rickets due in Mr. W. L. Beurle's opinion to vaccination, 12,437, 12,446-8, 12,454-6. RING: Ring s reported cases of inoculation for the cow-pox referred to by Professor E. M.. Crookshank, 11,192, 11,228-9, 12,078, 12,083.. SADDINGTON, Mr. GEORGE (analysis of his evi- dence) : Is a framework knitter at Leicester, 13,993. Has been fined four times, and once imprisoned in default of payment, under the Vaccination Acts, 13,994-9, 14,001-6, 14,016-22. Objects to vaccination because he considers it a violation of nature's laws and not pre\-entive of small-pox, 13,997-9, 14,011-4; and in 1868 or 1869 assisted in organising a committee in Leicester to oppose the law, 13,997-14,000, 14,007-14. [Reference in the evidence of Mr. J. T. Biggs to the imprisonment of Mr. Saddington, 13,639.] SANITATION: Dr. G. Cordwent's experience that small-pox always occurs in the most insanitary parts of towns, 12,700, 12,752-5, 12,780-1. _ Mr. J- Stansfeld's opinion as to the effect of sanitation on small-pox mortality, 12,879-80. Mr. T. Windley as to sanitary improvements effected in Leicester since 1872, 13,231, 13,234; and his opinion as to the effect of sanitation on small-pox mortalitj^ 13,236-40. Mr. J. T. Biggs's tables and diagrams, with his obser- vations thereon, showing for the Borough of Leices- ter : during the years 1849-89 in quinquennial periods, the total number of small-jDOx deaths, the average annual small-pox death-rate per million living, the accumulated vaccinations per hundred$