230 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. xvm. 



did not happen, but because some practitioners were 

 interested in not seeing them, and others who did see 

 them were afraid of announcing what they knew." 



As an example of the number of cases occurring all 

 over the country, Mr. Charles Fox, a medical man re- 

 siding at Cardiff, has published fifty-six cases of illness 

 following vaccination, of which seventeen resulted in 

 death (E. W. Allen, 1890). In only two of these, where 

 he himself 'gave the certificate, was vaccination men- 

 tioned. All of these cases were examined by himself 

 personally. Among those who survived, several were 

 permanently injured in health, and some were crippled 

 for life ; while in most of such cases the inflammation and 

 eruptions are so painful, and the sufferings of the chil- 

 dren so great and so prolonged, that the mother endures 

 continuous mental torture, lasting for weeks, months, or 

 even years. And if one medical man can record such a 

 mass of injury and disease in which vaccination was the 

 palpable starting-point and certainly a contributory 

 cause, what must be the total mass of unrecorded suffer- 

 ing throughout the whole country? Considering this 

 and other evidence, together with the admitted and very 

 natural concealment by the doctors concerned, " to save 

 vaccination from reproach," the estimate of Mr. Alfred 

 Milnes, a statistician who has paid special attention to 

 the subject, that the officially admitted deaths must be 

 at least multiplied by twelve to obtain the real deaths 

 from vaccination, we shall arrive at the terrible number 

 of over 600 children and adults killed annually by this 

 compulsory operation; while, judging from the propor- 

 tion of permanent injury, twenty-eight in Mr. Fox's 

 fifty-six cases, with seventeen deaths, about 1000 per- 



