VACCINATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 3

VACCINATION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— think Dr. Bakewell deserves the grateful thanks of the public foi his paper drawing attention to the disastrous effects of vaccination. There are plenty of cases in Auckland proving his statement that disease often follows arm to arm vaccination; and if, as has been proved, that scarlet fever can be transmitted by the milk of the cow, why not other diseases too, and more certainly, by the so-called pure calf lymph ? Dr. Bakewell Jb in good company, for Dr. Cobbett(one of the best of the Auckland doctors) told me that vaccination was quite unnecessary here, where no small-pox exists, and, if introduced, vaccination could be effected at any time. This is all the more forcible when it is borne in mind that the operation muse bo performed every few years to be thoroughly efficacious. This is admitted by those- doctors

who insist upon vaccination. It is monstrous - , r that the public , should be forced to ran th« ,*' f fearful risk of their children ' being ■ made idiots, scrofulous, consumptive, or killed, oo • otherwise ruined for life, by an act that i<JeS5 at least unnecessary at the present time. An ".. 2 anti-vaccination society should be formed to . take the matter up, ana compel an alteration » in the.law.— am, etc., . A Parent. •