THE VACCINATION INQUIRER AND HEALTH REVIEW. THE ORGAN OF THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF HE WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN SIDE OF THE CASE, KNOWS LITTLE OF THAT.-J. Stuart Mill. 114, VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER; AND EDWARD W. ALLEN, 4, AVE MARIA LANE. 1882. Escott's Case-Credulity of B. Firth, M.P.-Bromley Hospital-all Vaccinated!-P. A. Taylor's Pamphlet widely Circulated-Dr. W. B. Carpenter Incorrigible -Nurses and the Lancet-Lord Clifton on Repeated Prosecutions - Sir John Lubbock and Pasteur French Soldiers Syphilised in Algiers ... International Congress, Cologne-Dr. Cameron's Mare's Nest-Rev. Samuel Haughton's Charge of Lunacy- Dr. H. A. Martin as Charlatan-Doctors at Ryde- Editors on Vaccination-Dr. Johnson's Facility for Romance Inquiry of Epidemiological Society 131-133 Dr. Drysdale in Victoria Street-Dr. Warlomont as a tradesman-Vaccination-Repudiation of Jenner- Prophesies on his own behalf-Professor McCall Anderson's "cauld kail het again"-Ernest Hart sighs for Candour and Charity-Charles Dickens's ... 1-3 128 Inquiry by Dr. Stevens-Prosecutions of Joseph Abel- ... Dr. Buchanan's Memorandum-Vaccinated and Unvac- ... "Murder Leagues"-Dr. W. B. Carpenter's Extra- ... ...75-77 "A Disgrace to Humanity"-Pasteur in the Christian ... BAKER, THOMAS, AT CONFERENCE OF LONDON SOCIETY Bit of Experience Burns, James, on Vaccination... Burt, Thomas, M.P., his Prosecution 66 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.-J. STUART MILL. MAY 24 1934 ✰ EDICAL LIBRARY The Vaccination Inquirer VOL. III., No. 25.] And Health Review. NOTES OF THE MONTH. APRIL, 1881. THE letters of Mr. Gibbs to Mr. Dodson and Dr. Spottiswoode are noteworthy. We saw with some amazement last summer the President of the Royal Society dragged at the tail of the Medical Trades Unions to protest against the Government bill for limiting fines for non-vaccination. "What concern," we exclaimed, can Dr. Spottiswoode have in that business!" but reflecting how anything in the sacred name of Vaccination is accounted justifiable, that special folly seemed of less significance. By and by came the President's own explanation, which we think is at fault as to matter-of-fact. It would appear as if he took the initiative in consulting the Physicians and Surgeons. Was it not the other way? and was there not a little hesitation in convincing the P.R.S. that "a scientific principle" was indeed at stake? Dr. Spottiswoode is discreet in declining to explain "the scientific principle" to Mr. Gibbs; and it is to be regretted that he did not display equal discretion when solicited to lend the prestige of the Royal Society to a questionable purpose. THE attempt to subject children attending Board Schools to examination for vaccination should be firmly opposed. It is on a par with projects continually suggested, and occasionally attempted, of house to house visitation for the same purpose. Such espionage is without any warrant in law, and ought to be resented decisively. The Chelsea Guardians lately set the public vaccinator to inspect the children in the Chelsea Schools, but he had not advanced far with his inquisition when it was stopped by order of the School Board. In taking this step, we trust the Board may be sustained by public opinion, for influential attempts will be made to reverse it. The progress of education is hampered in many ways, and sufficient odium is incurred by the persistency requisite to compel attendance at school; but if parents can allege [PRICE 2d. that their children are liable to be stripped for examination with a view to their vaccination or re-vaccination, they will have the sympathy of many in resisting measures with such odious accompaniments. THE speeches of Mr. Tebb, Dr. Collins, Dr. Pearce, Dr. Haughton and others at the annual meeting of the Vigilance Association were thoroughly appropriate. The Association is established "for the defence of personal rights and the amendment of the law;" and surely none will dispute that compulsory vaccination has been the initiation of that iniquitous legislation against which the action of the Association is directed. The Contagious Diseases Act (Women) would never have been passed had not the course been made smooth for medical despotism by repeated enactments in favour of vaccination. We can never too jealously resist inroads on personal liberty. Every surrender is converted into a precedent and an argument for more extensive concessions. Thus it seems inconceivable to many advocates of vaccination why the rite is not enforced at all hazards on unbelievers, and re-vaccination likewise. Their minds are so demoralised by wrong already committed, that they have no sense of the deeper wrong proposed. Mr. Jacob Bright observed in kindly spirit, that anti-vaccinators had their own societies and organs, and might leave the Association to the special work which the executive pursue with so much vigour. The observation was not without good sense, but the Association will operate none the less efficiently if the members bear in mind the scope of their programme and that with anti-vaccinators they have a common enemy, who if defeated on the ground of compulsion in vaccination would leave to the Association an easier victory in their special contention. DR. B. W. RICHARDSON delivered an emphatic rebuke to the Vaccination Jingoes represented by Mr. Michael at the Sanitary Institute on 9th |