Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-30
Want School Board to Punish The
Principal Of the Fox Hill
Graded Schools.
SAYS he IS OPPOSING VACCINATION
Citizens ct the Town Of Fox Hill
Adopted a Singing Set of ResoIu.
tIop' In Opposition to Allowing the
children to be vacclnated as the
Virginia Law Requires.

The members of the board OF
health are indignant over n set Of
resolutions passed by the people of
the town Of Fox Hill In opposition to
vaccination in the public schools.
The, board met yesterday morning
and discussed the resolutions at
length. The entire matter was re-
ferred to the school board, which, it
Is understood, was asked to punish
Irwin Llewelling. the principal or the
Fox Hill Graded Schools, for his fail.
.ure to comply with the state law re-
latiye to vaccination. According to
the board of health and the health of.
ftccr, DR.. Walter A. Picker, Mr..
Llewelling has been one of the NOV
Ing spirits against the vaccination,
when. as principal of the schools he
should have been enforcing the law.
The Virginia school law makes its
mandatory upon all teachers to see
that every pupil under him or her has
the proper certificate of vaccination.
For this failure the board of health
Is going to take the proper action
Lewelling. 1t Is claimed drew up tho
resolutions, which according to the
Board of Health is one of the most un.
usual acts for a teacher Virginia
has ever known. An interesting bat.
tie may follow. The resolutions from
Fox Hill are singing and bitter. They
are signed by forty-six persons, in.
Guiding all the prominent men and
women of the community The
school board is OF the opinion that
Mr. Llewelling is responsible for
much of the opposition. instead of
thoroughly encouraging one of the
greatest health measures enforced by
the Virginia State Board of Education
and the State Board of Health. Here
are the resolutions:
Resolutions.
Whereas, The Board of Health Of
this county, in pursuance of section
1496 of the code of Virginia, has
ordered the compulsory vaccination
of the pupils of our public school:
and, whereas, after careful considera.
ton, we have como to the conclu-
sion
F1rst-That smallpox can only be
prevented and extinguished by SAM
tary methods.
Second-That vaccination with vac
cine or variola is not only a non-pre.
ventive of smallpox, but that it often
Third-That vaccination often caus-
es couveep or intenslfeis lockjaw,
syphilis, eczema, erysipelas. scrofula
scarlatinia, eruptions, tuberculosis.
cancer. paralysis, and blood-poison-
ing.
Fourth-That the resulting deaths
of vaccination are mostly not report
ed. or are covered up.
Klfth-ThAt nj
unmitigated curse to poison. disease.
and corrupt the pure blood of a child
with the filthy bovine virus used.
Sixth-That to attempt the compul-
sorry vaccination of the children,
would take away from the school full
ly two thirds of the pupils, thus prac.
tically running the school.
Seventh-That to expel from the
school pupils who will not be vacci-
mated Is despotic and at variance with
our rights as free-boru American cit.
liens, for taxation without education
is tyranny.
Eighth-That the assertion "pure
virus" is pure lie, and a persump.
tious absurdity.
Ninth-That 1t is tyrannical, un-
called for. and unjust to enforce the
order in a rural community where no
smallpox epidemic exists.
Tenth-That for the decadence of
smallpox sanitation and isolation dc.
serves all the credit, and vaccination
none.
/. Eleventh-That the penal enforce
Nnient of vaccination Is unconstitution-
al, and crime against humanity.
Twelfth-That the whole scheme of
vaccination Is the most destructive
medical delusion that ever afflicted
the SAGE and is perpetuated solely as
isa1 go !,