Deputation to the Minister of Health
1929 1920s 12 pages THE VACCINATION INQUIRER - (Supplement) August. ix the Vaccination Acts. A typical case was that of John Flanagan, of Keighley, aged 10 years, who in May, 1928, urged his parents to have him vaccinated, as the lady doctor at the local clinic had refused to certify him as fit to...
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London : National Anti-Vaccination League
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THE VACCINATION INQUIRER - (Supplement) August. ix the Vaccination Acts. A typical case was that of John Flanagan, of Keighley, aged 10 years, who in May, 1928, urged his parents to have him vaccinated, as the lady doctor at the local clinic had refused to certify him as fit to go to a seaside camp unless vaccinated. The boy was thereupon vaccinated, and died a fortnight later from (a) acute meningitis, (h) tonsilitis, (c) vaccination, as certified by the doctor who vaccinated him. We ask you, sir, is it justifiable to compel parents to submit their children to a process which in some cases, no one knows how many, admittedly causes death and various illness? While the Vaccination Acts remain on the Statute Book compulsion is exercised over and over again. Mr. Arnold Lupton :— Sir, I am glad to have the honour of meeting you. I have great hopes that your Ministry may be made for ever memorable by the repeal of the Vaccination Law. I have good ground for that hope because the first speech that I heard made by the present Prime Minister was in Parliament in 1906, when he spoke against vaccination. Then he was not in Office. Now he is Prime Minister and, if his Ministry brings in a Bill to repeal the Vaccination Law, it will be carried. Only a few die-hards will venture to take the responsibility of rejecting it. I speak with unusual confidence because for the first time in vaccination history we are all agreed as to facts of overwhelming importance. Every known method of vaccination has now been condemned by the vaccination authorities themselves, and, therefore, to continue the practice is without excuse. Some people say that there is a great body of medical opinion in favour of vaccination, but the opinion of a great body is of no value. There is no individual responsibility. The only opinion that is of value is that of a man who has made a special study of the question, who knows its history and its effects, and from the beginning vaccination has been condemned by the independent medical men who have studied the question. Dr. Charles Creighton, who wrote books, and condemned the practice because it was useless and spread the horrid disease of syphilis ; Professor Edgar Crookshank, of King's College, who wrote two ponderous volumes and condemned the practice ; Professor Mcintosh of the London University, who says that "from every scientific point of view the use of the living virus is bad," and, since the vaccinators use the living virus, he condemns vaccination as bad. A great many other eminent medical men have condemned the practice as bad. It is 210 years since attempts to stop smallpox by inoculations began. In 1718 the Eastern practice of inoculating people with smallpox, so that they might not take the disease in the natural manner, was introduced into England, and it was largely practised for 80 years. Important bodies of medical men advocated the practice as beneficial. This practice has now been made a crime punishable with imprisonment, so the important bodies of medical men who advocated it were mistaken. Then came Jenner in 1798, and his cowpox theory superseded the smallpox theory, and was practised for 100 years till 1898, and all that time the great bodies of medical men declared that Vaccination would prevent smallpox, and was perfectly harmless, but all that century vaccination failed to prevent smallpox, and disease was spread broadcast, particularly syphilis, killing 20,000, and injuring for life 200,000 a year, until it was stopped by Act of Parliament in 1898. In England and Wales the Jenner vaccination probably killed about 20,000 persons and permanently injured about 200,000 persons annually. The process spread syphilis and other bad diseases through this country and a great part of the world, it also spread leprosy in India, South Africa, Oceana, The West Indies and other tropical and sub-tropical countries, creating millions of lepers. By the Act of 1898, it was admitted that the statements of the great medical bodies that vaccination was harmless were false, and now nobody defends the Jenner method of vaccination. In 1898 came the calf lymph method. This had been repeatedly tried before, and abandoned, because of the terrible diseases it gave. This, of course, spread disease wholesale — syphilis and other horrid diseases, the same as Jenner's method, probably killing 10,000 persons and permanently injuring 100,000 every year ; but the great medical bodies supported it, and said that it prevented smallpox and was harmless ; but the official statistics show that in the last epidemic in London of smallpox, 70 per cent. of the cases had been vaccinated, and the report of the Rolleston Committee, which includes the report of the Andrewes Committee, which was appointed nearly six years ago, shows that vaccination gives encephalitis similar to sleepy sickness, which is the worst disease known, because 50 per cent. of those who get it become permanently insane. The Ministry of Health appointed the Andrewes' Committee because of the report made by two eminent London doctors, Professor James Mcintosh and Professor Hubert M. Turnbull. These men had examined seven cases of death after vaccination, and they came to the conclusion that the deaths were caused entirely by the vaccine matter put into their blood, and
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