228 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. xvni. 



lion, or less than seven times as much instead of forty 

 times ! 



This same tract is full of other equally gross misstate- 

 ments. It tells us, in large, black type, " With due 

 care in the performance of the operation, no risk of any 

 injurious effects from it need be feared." The Regis- 

 trar-General himself shows us that this is false, in his 

 Keport for 1895, Table 17, p. Hi.: 



COWPOX AND OTHER EFFECTS OF VACCINATION. 



YEAR. DEATHS. YEAR. DEATHS. 



1881 58 1889 58 



1882 65 1890 43 



1883 55 1891 43 



1884 53 1892 58 



1885 52 1893 59 



1886 45 1894 50 



1887 45 1895 56 



1888 45 



An average of 52 children officially murdered every 

 year, and officially acknowledged, is termed " alleged in- 

 jury," which need not be feared! And these cruel 

 falsehoods are spread broadcast over the country, and the 

 tract bears upon its title-page " Revised by the Local 

 Government Board, and issued with their sanction." 



As the tract bears no date,I cannot tell whether it is 

 still issued; but it was in circulation up to the time when 

 the Commission was sitting, and it is simply disgrace- 

 ful that a Government Department should ever have 

 given its official sanction to such a tissue of misrepre- 

 sentations and palpable false statements. For these 785 

 deaths in fifteen years, and 300 in the preceding twenty- 

 two years (classed as from erysipelas after vaccination), 

 no one has been punished, and no compensation or even 

 official apology has been given to the thousand sorrow- 



