[Letters to the Water Cure Journal, and other papers, by John Gibbs : being the sequel to "Letters from Graefenberg" / by the same author].

  • Gibbs, John, of Camberwell.
Date:
1847-1856
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Credit: [Letters to the Water Cure Journal, and other papers, by John Gibbs : being the sequel to "Letters from Graefenberg" / by the same author]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r to vaccinate another,it also would be killed. He was forced to comply, and in less than three weeks, the child, al- though previously perfectly healthy, died of fits, similar to attacks to which '» some of the family of the child from / whom the vaccine matter was taken HTAT.P ’’[Extract from a letter from Mr. JSneas VVCIC OUUJCL-L. Daly, of Barnsley, dated May 6, 1857.] Similar cases of enforced infanticide t are not uufrequent, but in many of them, in this free land of England,*- the Voice of outraged nature is re-‘ pressed by the fear of provoking the resentment of parish officials,—lay, medical, and clerical,—and bereaved parents are condemned to weep in si- lence over their losses and their wrongs. It would be strange indeed if the English people did not strive by might and main to obtain the com- plete repeal of this iniquitious law. We are therefore glad to make known that a Bill for its repeal, brought in by Mr. T. S. Duncombe, is to be read a second time on Wednesday, and that numerous petitions in support of Mr. Duncombe’s Bill are being sent in. From this neighbourhood Bexhill has been the first to petition. Battle has followed with a petition most numer- ously and respectably signed, the list being headed by Sir A. Webster, of Battle Abbey, followed by Herbert Martin, Esq., and other leading in- habitants. Petitions are also in course | of signature in St. Leonards and Has- tings; and we hope these towns will continue to sustain the reputation they acquired last year, for attach- ment to personal and parental right and those principles of civil and reli- gious freedom, upon which the great- ness of England is founded.
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