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that can boast of a case-fatality in a
variolous epidemic of less than one per
cent, which was the rate in unvaccin-
ated Leicester in 1904, municipality
having a population of about a quarter
OF milliOng Wall some obHging apollo
gist for vaccination kindly tell us what
II was That made smallpox so mild
andnanageable in unvaecinated Leices-
ter? Win some promoter OF the Jen-
merriam delusion please refer us to some
well vaccinated population which can
boast of a smallpox fatality rate so
''astonishingly small" as that if unvac-
cinated Leicester? In view of Leices-
ter's experience, what becomes of the
stock argument of the pro-vaccinists
that vaccination mitigates smallpox?
Leicester's experiment fatty bellies
every claim that has ever been trumped
up for vaccination as a preventive or
mitigant of smallpox, and proves be-
yond peradventure that the vaccine
practice is worse than useless except for
the purpose of supplying doctors fees
and furnishing business for under
takers.
In view of Dr. Millard's official state
ment that there was in Leicester very
little permanent Disagreement or in
jury produced by the disease in those
who recovered" what becomes of the
stock argument of the apostles of Jen-
nerism that the disappearance of
'pocked-marked faces at certain pc
RODS of time was the result OF protec-
tive vaccination? If poeked-marl1ed
faces after epidemics of smallpox in
an unvaccinated population are so rare.
as Dr.. Mhllard tells us they have been
in Leicester, how do the vaccine theo-
Tists account for the rarity of cases of
facial blemish in the absence of vac
cination? Had vaccination been in
vogue in Leicester at the time referred
to, it would have been credited by its
sR1ifty advocates with the mighty
achievement of having averted the
dreaded facial Disagreement incident
TO unmodified smallpox.
In his official report Dr.. Willard fur
Their says:
Leicester, as we have seen, is a no.
toriously badly vacsinated community, !
and probably contains a larger proper |
ton of unvaccinated persons than any i
other large town.
In referring to the Leicester epidemic
of 1904, DR.. AIillard says:
''Ihe money cost of the epidemic to
the rates was probably not much more
than would have 10 be spent every year
If vaccination and re-vaccination were
systematically carried out on the whole
healthy population"
Such a damaging admission, coming /
pledged TO vaccination and presiding
over the health department of popu-
lous municipality which more than
quarter of century ago discarded vac
cination and has persistently refused it
ever since, is pretty conclusive testi-
mony against the contention of his fell
low-vaccinists who assume that the pre-
vale1ce which smallpox would attain
in the absence of vaccination would
bring TO them far greater pecuniary
profit than vaccination does. The ex-
perience of unvaccinated Leicester fatty
confutes the preposterous claim Of the
that health can be
conserved by the propagation of dis
ease.
Dr. Willard tells us further that I'm
Leicester during the twenty-four years
that notification has been in force, the
average annual number of smallpox
cases has been only thirty-seven. The
average number of children born an
nuaIly has been five thousand, so that
f-711-rs,,-- e. -,-ofso1Ia dco4bel o4 IoacT |
eight thousand vaccinations Including
would have to be per-
formed each year to precent thirty
seven cases of smallpox" Even if vac
cination were a certain preventive of
small pox, think of the glaring absurd
ity of imposing more than ZIG disease
operations upon healthy peo- ,
pie to prevent one case of smallpox. !
What an act of insanity it would be 10 I
implant the infective products of unde-
fined disease into the bodies of eight
thousand healthy, children in order TO I
prevent the possible development of a :
Tery few mild cases of smallpox Could
albsurdity go further than this?
Last year I received from Dr. Millard, !
Medical Officer of Health for Leicester, !
| copy of his then last (190S) Official
Report. In prefacing this report Dr. !
killard says:
''The retrospect is on the whole a I
one, the death rate being a
,nly 1898 per thousand. A comparison 1
With other great centers of population P
continues to be very favorable to Lei a
ester During the ten years 1898 D
800 only one town in the kingdom had '
lower average death rate than Leices-
er" o
On page 26 of the same Official Re n
'ort, DR.. Willard tells us that in Leices- il
er compulsory vaccination has prac-
ically been all but abolished and that a
there has in 1908 been decrease in +;
he number of vaccinations as compared Fl
nth previous years" He remarks that h
during the year (19O8) no cases of G,
Enall-pox have occurred in Leicester" II
From Dr. c. KiIIick AIillard. who still W
olds the position of Medical Officer of 81
Iealth of Leicester, I have just received Of