Vital statistics. Small-pox & vaccination in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and continental countries and cities, with tables compiled from authentic sources / by Charles T. Pearce.

  • Pearce, Charles T. (Charles Thomas)
Date:
1882
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    PART IV.—IRELAND. I now come to the Sister Isle, and there, also, the same untoward results as those just related of Scotland are presented. Ireland has been often quoted as an instance of the success of vaccination, by authorities. Heaven save the mark! Authorities^^'' The ignorance displayed by some of the members of the Committee of 1871, as well as the witnesses, would be sufficient, on any other subject, to brand them as blind leaders of the blind. Let me recall some few examples by quotations from the Minutes of Evidence, and compare the opinions of the advocates with the stern facts which I now educe. It was only natural that I should be first asked respecting my opinions, knowing as the Committee did, that I am against vaccination altogether. In my examination by that Committee, the following question was put to me (on the loth of March). Question 1,141.—^'Then if I understand you rightly, the statement that I have often seen of late that Ireland is free from small-pox, because it is more completely vaccinated than England, is not a true statement ? Answer.—It is not founded on fact. [In answer to previous questions I had furnished the official statistics.] Question 1,143.—Can you tell me, then, how it is that vaccination should be thought to prevent sm.all-pox in Ireland, E