Compulsory vaccination : report of a public meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on ... October 19, 1870.

  • Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League.
Date:
1870
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    man, when he carried liis prejudice for vaccination into the coroner's court? He very much regretted that thej' had a medical coroner, and although he had voted for him at first, he would promise never to vote for another gentleman of the same profession. He then referred to the recent inquiry in Hi. Pancras, on the body of a child which died the day after it was vaccinated. The death was attributed to con;4;t'sti(iii uf llif luii;4s. iiiit I Ik'iniijiiiiiMiK [mii nl' the pri)c('C(liii,L!;s wiLs. tliiit llie dootaf wlio ViU-ciuatedperformed the post-aiortem exauiiuatiuii. Jieferring to -the general question, he said that under the vaccination system, even when small-pox was absent there was an equivalent disease present. Dr. Lanlvester himself, in a return he had fur- nished to the parish of St. James's, said that although they had no small-pox, they had its equivalent—scarlet feVer— very had. Dr. Lankester had also said that there were three small-pox cases in the hospital; one patient was unvaccinated, and two had been vaccinated. That order of things Avas not according to the promise of the vaccinators, who told them that vaccination was a preventative. Before calling on the speakers he would just say to the medical profession, that they desired a fak and impartial investiga- tion. As an individual he was open to conviction, if any gentleman present could prove he Avas in the wrong, but as far as he at present saw, he should as much expect to see the sun shining in the middle of the night, as to be con- vinced of the utility of vaccination. If any medical gentlemen wished to speak and would hand up their names they should be heard. Dr. Eouth and Dr. Thompson (of the Brompton Hospital) sent up theii' cards. Mr. Snell, on rising, said that the meeting was, no doubt, acquainted with the account of Do-the-boys Hall, in