VACCINATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9641, 13 January 1899, Page 2

VACCINATION.

Those of our readers who are oppossd to vaccination, and we opine there are not a few, will be interested in a case that recently came before the Marylebone Police Court, London. I>r Allinson appeared and renewed his application for the exemption of his children from vaccination. For threo years, ho said, ho was assistant parish srugcon at Shsreditch, and during tho Bmall-pox epidemic of 1880-81 he saw all the cases that occurred in that district. In every instanco tho afflicted person had been vaccinated. He saw certain areas where the diseaso was more common then in other placos, and those areas were inhabited by tho very poor and were insanitary. More than that, he saw ohildron that wero unvacc.inated lying in tho sumo bed with children suffering from smallpox, and yet they had not contracted tbo disease. In one caso of four children all of whom woro re-vaccinated, two only took tho disease, and the others went unscatched. Subsequently he was for three j ears assistaut public vaccinator, and saw a great many cases of eczema and erysipelas following vaccination, and also many deaths from blood poisoning. According to the germ theory, vaccine might introduce tuberculosis, cancer and a great many other complaints, and he, therefore, very strongly objected to vaccination. Tho fact that he had three children unvacciuated, and that he had been frequently reminded th.it he waa going to be summoned, wa», he thought, a good sign of his conscientious objection. In reply "to a question from the Bench, Dr*Allinson expressed the opinion thftt vaccination had only done'one good thing— it had stopped inoculation. Ho said he would rather

suffer anything— go to prison, pay £100 for eaoh child, and send his children out of the country. beyond the influence of the law' than have them vacoinated'. There was nothing ho would not Biiflor, yes", oheerf ully and willingly;. v The Magistrate, after rtifriarking that Dr Allinson was tho best specimen of a. martyr he had over seen, granted tho certificate.