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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    PREFACE. It seems needful to explain in a few words the circumstances under which this pamphlet comes to be published. I have for several years past been frequently appealed to, by all sorts of people, on all sorts of occasions, for a statement of the facts which would enable them to answer the strong assertions of a certain class of agitators who describe themselves as anti-vacci- nators. These gentlemen are so very persistent in their agita- tion, and so elaborately wrong in their statistics and arguments, that it has really become a matter of no small difficulty for a technically uninstructed person to examine their figures or test their allegations. On the occasion of two of the most recent parliamentary elections, I was hurriedly applied to by candidates for references to the sources from which to answer their anti-vaccinating per- secutors. Members of Parliament and magistrates are, indeed, often at their wits' ends to know where to find the true facts which these gentlemen delight to misrepresent. I have, of course, been able to refer enquirers to the stan- dard works on the subject, and to the Registrar-General's statistics; but a need evidently exists for some more concise