THE VIRTUES OF VACCINATION
DISCUSSED IN THE HOUSE. [BY TELEGRAPH—PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT! WELLINGTON, July 24. Speaking in the House this' afternoon Air Buick warmly deprecated “panic vaccination” and stated that although a person might be vaccinated there was nothing to prevent him carrying the germs *f the disease about in his. clothes. “If compulsory vaccination is resorted to,” the member for Palmerston declared, amidst laughter, “I will develop a conscience and become a conscientious objector.”
Dr. Newman (Wellington East) stoutly proclaimed the virtues of vaccination and said that the whole of the evidence off the past hundred years tended to prove the efficacy of vaccination. “No. absolutely no!” retorted Mr Wilford (Hutt), who declared that the question was still one upon ivhicli doctors widely differed. The fact_ that some persons are still doubting that the epidemic is really small-pox was also referred to, but one or two members said that two photographs of patients which have been received from the Waikato district afforded strong support to the small-pox diagnosis.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3993, 25 July 1913, Page 4
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