Deputation to the Minister of Health
1929 1920s 12 pages xii THE VACCINATION INQUIRER - (Supplement) August. that there is no inaccuracy in my statement sufficient to affect adversely the argument. If he differs from me, and accepts this bet, we can soon agree upon a judge. I hand you herewith the statement which I have read and guar...
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London : National Anti-Vaccination League
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xii THE VACCINATION INQUIRER - (Supplement) August. that there is no inaccuracy in my statement sufficient to affect adversely the argument. If he differs from me, and accepts this bet, we can soon agree upon a judge. I hand you herewith the statement which I have read and guaranteed. Mr. Greenwood :— Replying to the speeches, Mr. Greenwood said that the Deputation would not expect him to give them a definite reply at that moment. He had come into the question from the opposite position from that from which it had been approached by the speakers. They had come forward from former days down to the recent vaccination deaths ; he started there and had to go backwards. He knew very little about the vaccination question except that these deaths had been brought to his notice since he took up his office, and he was very concerned about them. Mr. Lupton was too optimistic in his suggestion that he could easily get a Bill through Parliament. Suppose there were 40 energetic opponents of such a Bill ; they could easily make the passage of such a Bill extremely difficult. Let them imagine that he brought in a Bill to make vaccination strictly compulsory — they would have friends in the House who would make the passage of such a Bill almost impossible. So it might be with a Bill to repeal the Acts, as there were probably men in the House as enthusiastic on the other side as the deputation was against vaccination. Such a Bill would have to go before the Cabinet before it could be presented to Parliament. The matter was a matter for decision by the whole Cabinet. He wished there were short cuts in matters affecting his Department as there was so much to be done. The affairs of his own Department were so numerous that they could occupy the whole of Parliamentary time. But he would promise that he would give his close personal consideration to the papers that had been handed to him and to anything else they might send him. He thanked them for coming. Speeches such as those that had been made that morning were far more informative than any amount of written matter. Mr. Tom Groves, M.P., moved a very hearty vote of thanks to the Minister for so kindly receiving the Deputation and listening so closely to the arguments that had been placed before him. Air. Chancellor seconded this, and the Minister expressed his appreciation of the vote of thanks accorded him. The following (from The Times) was the report issued by the Ministry of Health, after Mr. Greenwood's Private Secretary had conferred with Miss Loat (who was accompanied by Mrs. Hedley Thomson) on the matter :— ANTI-VACCINATION LEAGUE. DEPUTATION TO MINISTER OF HEALTH. The Minister of Health received a deputation yesterday from the National Anti-Vaccination League. The deputation was introduced by Mr. F.A. Broad, M.P., in the absence of Mr. E.F. Wise, M.P., and included the Duchess of Hamilton, Lady Heath, Lady Isabel Margesson, Mr. W.A. Sibly, M.A., J.P., Headmaster of Wycliffe College, Members of Parliament, and a number of medical men. The speakers were Mr. H.G. Chancellor, Dr. M. Beddow Bayly, and Mr. Arnold Lupton. Mr. Chancellor and Mr. Arnold Lupton urged that in view especially of the in-adequacy of the Conscience Clause, the Vaccination Acts should be completely repealed. They submitted to the Minister full statements of their grounds for believing in the inefficacy of vaccination as a protection against smallpox and in its extreme danger to health. In support of their views they quoted numerous cases of deaths following vaccination. Dr. Beddow Bayly referred in particular to the cases that have occurred of postvaccinal encephalitis and said that as the smallpox now prevalent was of so mild a character it was wholly unnecessary to urge vaccination. The Minister said that he thought that politically it would be very difficult to pass through Parliament a Bill to repeal the Vaccination Laws, and he could not make any statement on the policy involved without consulting the Cabinet. He promised, however, that he would give his close personal attention to the statements that had been presented to him by the deputation. Printed by VACHER & SONS, LTD., Westminster House, S.W.1 (66937), and published by the NATIONAL ANTI-VACCINATION LEAGUE, 25, Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W.1.
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