Vaccination a delusion : its penal enforcement a crime, proved by the official evidence in the reports of the Royal Commission / by Alfred Russel Wallace.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1898
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Credit: Vaccination a delusion : its penal enforcement a crime, proved by the official evidence in the reports of the Royal Commission / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    erroneous one substituted. Thus: Before its dis- covery (vaccination) the mortality from small-pox in London was forty times greater than it is now This is an altogether vague and misleading statement. If it means that in some years of the last century it was forty times greater than in some years of this century, it is misleading, because even within the last thirty years some years have a mortality not only forty but eighty and even 200 times as great as others. (In 1875 there were ten deaths per million, while in 1871 there were 2,420 deaths per million.) If it means on an average of say twenty years, it is false. For the twenty years 1869-98 the mortality was about 300 per million, while for the last twenty years before the discovery of small-pox it was about 2,000 per million, or less than seven times as much instead of forty times! This same tract is full of other equally gross mis- statements. It tells us, in large, black type, With due care in the performance of the operation, no risk of any injurious effects from it need be feared The E-egistrar-Greneral himself shows us that this is false in his Eeport for 1895, Table 17, p. Hi.: COWPOX AND OTHER EFFECTS OF VACCINATION Year. Deaths. 1881 58 1882 65 1883 55 1884 53 1885 ... 52 1886 . 45 1887 45 1888 45 Year. Deaths. 1889... .,, 58 1890 43 1891 43 1892 ... 58 1893 59 1894 50 1895 56 An average of 52 children officially murdered every year, and officially acknowledged, is termed alleged injury, which need not be feared! And these cruel falsehoods are spread broadcast over the country, and the tract bears upon its title-page— [Revised by the Local Government Board, and issued with their sanction].