The truth about vaccination : an examination and refutation of the assertions of the anti-vaccinators.

  • Hart, Ernest, 1835-1898.
Date:
1880
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    famous ' Papers relating to the History and Practice of Vac- cination,' laid before the General Board of Health in 1857, by Mr. John Simon, and the late Dr. Seaton's standard ' Hand- book of Vaccination.' I am indebted also for many of my facts to the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Vaccination Act of 1867, and to Dr. Seaton's Report on the Small-pox Epidemic of 1871-2, published in the Fourth of the New Series of Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board. The facts which I have given do not, therefore, rest on my assertion alone, but on the matured experience of the recog- nised leaders of the medical profession on this important ques- tion. To compare the value of their evidence in favour of vaccination with the wild and reckless denunciations of the anti-vaccinators, must be wholly superfluous. The facts which I have collected speak for themselves, and I prefer to leave the result to the calm judgment of all impartial persons. Ernest Hart.