The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-16
MAJOR BOUDREN
 PRAISED HIGHLY
Accomplished Best Work in Connecticut Against Compul-
 SOry Vaccination
VICTORIES WON IN CANADA
Massachusetts Law Requiring Vaccination of Infants Re-
 peaied

In his annual report the secretary of the National Anti-Vaccination lea que, refers to the attitude of certain staes oward laws forbidding compul- sory vaccination. He also refers in terms of high praise to the work ac- complished for the cause by Major Thomas Boudren of this city.
 Tn Massachusetts a Bill repeating the law which required the vaccination Of all infants passed the Legislature two or three years ago, and was ap- proved by the then Acting Governor Draper, but at the last Session of the General Court of that State we were not so fortunate in our efforts to se- cure a repeal of the vaccination school law. With the support of the State Federation of Labor we hope to have greater success in the coming Session.
 "In Connecticut our greatest vic tory has been won in the City of Bridgeport, due to the untiring eff. forts of our friend, Major Thomas Boudren. Despite the opposition of the Bridgeport Medical Society, con- sisting of one hundred and sixty phy-. sicians who took most determined stand In favor of vaccination, Major Boudren succeeded in sweeping com pulsory vaccination out of the schools of Bridgeport, and I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that 1t Is something worth while for one man to do-to only remain in Connecticut now, I undSrstand, two towns that are strongholds of vaccination, Hartford and New Haven, and from what the Major has told me, plans are being matured by which it is proposed to free these towns in the near future. The position in regard to vaccination in Connecticut is largely one of local option, each town deciding the ques- tion for itself
 "In Nova Scotia we have won most surprising victory during the last year. The question came up as a political issue, and the anti-vaccina- tionists carried everything before them not only in the City of Halifax where the contest started, but through out the entire eighteen counties of the Province In Toronto our friends won several years ago, and from our re- ports from every part of Canada it is evident that the days of compul- sory vaccination there are numbered.
 "In Illinois. as you know, the Su- preme Court declared the compulsory vaccination school ordinance of the City of Chicago unconstitutional, and then our foes endeavOreu 10 1v, most drastic compulsory vaccination bills through the Illinois Legislature. From our headquarters in Philadel- phia we sent literature to every mem Der of the Legislature about every three days. We sent MT. E. B. Mo Cormick's Is Vaccination a. Disas- trouse Delusion?' MT. Arnold Luptons Vaccination and the State.' and many other publications. The bills were scheduled to go through; our peo- pie reported that everything was cut and dried. A hearing was held before the Legislative Committee having the bills in charge, but they were willing to hear only one of our speakers, and limited him as to time. They gave the other side all the time it wanted several hours-and heard all the speak CTS in favor of vaccination, but when it came to a showdown we licked both their bills on the floor of the House of Representatives, so that the bills never got into the Senate, and Illinois remains free.v