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.
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1890-1893
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    compulsory vaccination could- not be enforced in Leicester, 13,291-5. The discontinuance of prosecu- tions under the Yaccination Acts in the Leicester Union, 13,291, 13,296, 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 Borou,o-h as to proceedings under the Acts during the years 1881-6, 15,084-106, and particulars given by other witnesses as to the number of prosecutions in the Union prior to their discontinuance, ] 3,291-4, 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 Yaccination 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, magis- trates for the Borough of Leicester who have ad- judicated upon cases under the Vaccination Acts, as ito the course taken by them with regard to the pro- visions of the Acts allowing exemption where there is a reas^onable 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 administration of the A^accination Acts in the Leicester Union, 13,603-5,13,611-8,13,622-77,13,717 -53, 14,426, 15,502, 15,538-51,15,748,16,022,16,082-3, 16,379-83, App. 415 (Table 1) ; and as to the returns made to the House of Commons of persons imprisoned under the Acts, so far as relating to Leicester, 15,640-51, 16,082-3. The opinion of various witnesses living at Leicester that vaccination ought not to be compulsorily enforced, 12,939-40, 12,946, 12,968-71; 13,016-6; 13,043-8, 13,063-5, 13,081-2; 13,205-6, 13,208,13,256,13.261,13,265-81; 13,434-5; 13,45.5-7, 13,467-71'; 13,499-600, 13,507-8,13,619-21,13,638-40, 13,-548-51, 13,555; 13,572-3, 13,577-9, 13,586; 13,997-9,14,011-4.; 14,034; 14,693 ; 14,929-30,14,943, 14,947, 14,953-4; 13,697. The feeling in Leicester as regards vaccination and its compulsory enforcement, 13,291-5; 12,938-8, 12,945, 12,947-8, 12,971-86, 12,992-13,000 ; 13,012-4, 13,017- 20, 13,022-3,13,029-39 ; 13,04.5-51,13,054-7,13,065-7, 13,075-7, 13,109-11, 13,113-5, 13,117, 13,119; 13,241 -8; 13,407-12, 13,421-2; 13,432-3, 13,141-6; 13,456 -82 ; 13,49-5-8,13,500,13,521-43,13,552-8; 13,669-72, 13,674-85; 13.963-70, 13,973-5, 13,987-9; 13,997- 14,014; 14,034; 14,058-61; 14,693-701, 14,704-9; 14,930-45, 14,961-4; 14,995-9, 15,026; 15,095-106; 15.142-64, 15,161-74; 13,611-3, 13,618, 13,628-9, 13,632-3, 13,639-66, 13,674-89, 14,426, 15,400,15,405, 15,421-6, 15,430-1, 15,441^9, 15,452-3, 15,496-8, 15,538, 16,379-83, 17,866-74; 17,980 : as to the origin of the opposition now existing there to compulsory vaccination, 13,291-5, 13,318; 12,932-7, 12,967, 12,992, 12,999-13,002; 13,116, 13,120-3; 1-3,421; 1.3,436-40; 13,4-58-65,13,469-82; 13,-521-2,13,526-33, 13,662-4; 13,584-5; 13,965-7, 13,973-5, 13,987; 13,997-14,000, 14,007-14; 14,058-61; 14,377-85; 14,694-5; 14,998-9; 13,611-3,13,639,14.426. State- ments by witnesses living or having lived in Leicester or Leicestershire as to their having refused to have their children or some of them vaccinated, and as to their having in consequence been proceeded agaiiist under the Yaccination Acts, owing to their belief that members of their families or othei' persons known to them have saiiered ill effects from vaccination, 13,888-921; 13,923-47; 14,04.5-86; 14,087-121; 14,123 -36; 14,139-48; (14,26-5-303); 14,-304-40; 14,-386- 420 ; 14,64-5-8 ; 14,713-68 ; 14,959-88 ; 14,999-15,054; 15,066-83 ; (15,108-38) ; 15,140-1; 17,97-3-80. Mr. J. T. Biggs as to cases where parents, on being proceeded against in Leicester under the Yaccination 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, 13,749-53, 13.765-89, 13.824-31, 13,841-4, 16,299-38, 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, 13,74.3-8, 13,7-52, 13,765, 15,392, 17,276-7. [And see Prosecutions under the Vaccination J.cfe]. WAED : The cases of inoculation for the cow-pox published by Mr. Y'ard, the surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary, in 17! 59; Professor E. M. Crookshank's opinion that the lymph used was in fact that of smal]-pox and not of co\v-i:o\, 11.190-2, 12,048, 12,056, 12,078, 12,083. Yoigt's experiments in variolating cows referred to by Professor E. M. Crookshank, 12,292-5, 12,313 (note), 12,320, 12,327-9. WARD, Mk. JOSEPH (analysis of his evidence) : Is a hawker and traveller for hosiery living at Lough- borough, 14,386-7. Particulars of the illnesses of three of witness's children, in his opinion due to vaccination, 14,388-96, 14,403; since the time of these illnesses witness has refused to have his other children vaccinated, 14,393, 14,396-9, 14,403, 14,406 ; though one of them was, in fact, vaccinated without his knowledge, 14,399-406; and witness has been fined on several occasions, and twice imprisoned in default of payment, under the Yaccination Acts, 14,399, 14,403,'14,407-20. States that his brother-in- law died of small-pox, at the age of 27 years, having been vaccinated in infancy, 14,421-5. WA.RDLE, Mjrs. EMMA (analysis of her evidence): Is a widow living at Leicester, 14,264. Particulars of the illness, occurring after vaccination, and subse- quent death of witness's son Thomas, 14,266-303; since the time of this illness witness has refused to have her other children vaccinated, and her husband was summoned four times under the Yaccination Acts, 14,28.5-6. [References in the evidence of Mr. J. Leavesley to the case of the child Thomas Wardle, 15,021-4.] WHOOPIlSrG-OOUGH: Mr. J. T. Biggs's tables and diagram, with his ob- servations thereon, showing for the Borough of Leicester : for each of the years 18-38-89, the number of deaths from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases (small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, fevers, and diarrhoea), (16,781-2), 16.925- 6, 16,930-3, 16,983-5, App. 438 (Table 16); for the years 1838-89, the total number of deaths from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases with the per-centage of the deaths for each of those diseases to the total deaths from all of them, 16.926- 9,_ App. 439 (Table 17); during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the total and the average annual number of deaths from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases with the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 16,933-89, App. 439 (Table 18); for each of the years 1838-89, the death-rate from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases per million living with, for each of the years 1849-89, the per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 16,990-17,000, 17,013-23, 17,180-2, 17,239-43, 17,290-4, App. 440 (Table 19) ; and, during the years 1838-89 in quin- quennial periods, the average annual death-rate from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases per million living and the per-centage of the deaths from each of those diseases to the deaths from all of them with the average annual registered vaccinations to ten thousand births, 16,993, 16,996, 17,000-215, App 441 (Table 20), App. facing page 441 (Diagram G.). WILLAN: Willan's reported cases of cow-pox inoculation in which the variolous test was applied referred to by Professor E. M. Crookshank, 11,729, 11,784-7, 11,792, 12,090-1. WINDLBY, Me. THOMAS (analysis of his evidence); [Joint evidence with Messrs. Henry Lankester, John Statford, Henry Thomas Chambers, John Thomas Biggs, and John Storey, laying before the Commission certain resolutions passed by the Town Council of the Borough of Leicester with reference to compulsory vaccination, 12,924-4a.] Is an Alderman and chairman of the sanitary com- mittee of the Leicester Town Council, 13,145-6. The system adopted in Leicester in dealing with cases of small-pox, 13, 147-204, 13,206-30, 13,249-64, 13,283- 9. The condition as regards vaccination of the atten- dants at the small-pox hospital, 13,209. Sanitary improvements effected in Leicester since 1872, 13,231, 13,*234 ; and witness's opinion as to the effect of sani- tation on sraall-pox mortality, 13,236-40.