Eleventh annual report of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination for the year ending 31st March, 1891.

  • London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Eleventh annual report of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination for the year ending 31st March, 1891. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    REPORT. THE principal object of interest to supporters of our movement is beyond all doubt the Royal Vaccination Commission, which has already issued its Third Report, and is still taking evidence. The Royal Commission began to sit on Wednesday the 26th of June, 1889, and continued to sit every Wednesday until the 31st of July inclusive. The minutes of evidence taken during these sittings, with four appendices thereto, is embodied in the First Report of the Royal Commission. The evidence taken during these sittings was exclusively medical, the witnesses Sir John Simon, Dr.William Ogle, Dr.Thorne Thorne, and Dr.Rauch. The Commission resumed its sittings on Wednesday, the 9th of October, and continued to sit every Wednesday, and occasionally on Fridays also, until the nth of December inclusive, when the Commission adjourned until Wednesday, the 22nd of January, 1890, from which time the Commission sat every Wednesday until the 26th of March ; thence on Wednesdays, from the 16th of April to the 14th of May, and from the nth of June to the 2nd of July, in the year 1890. The evidence taken at the sittings from the 9th of October, 1889, to the 19th of February, 1890, is comprised in the Second Report. The evidence taken at the sittings from the 19th of February to the 2nd of July, 1890, is comprised in the Third Report of the Commission. The witnesses may be divided into three categories—viz., the medical and official experts of the Local Government Board ; the independent medical and other witnesses ; and the witnesses who have testified to the failure, mischief, and injustice of the compulsory law.