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sons annually must suffer from it throughout their lives ! 

 As confirmatory of even this large amount, the testimony 

 of Mr. Davidson, Medical Officer of Health for Congle- 

 ton, and formerly a Public Vaccinator, is important. He 

 began an inquiry into the alleged injurious effects of 

 vaccination, without believing that they were serious. 

 The outcome of his investigation was startling to him. 

 In his Annual Keport for 1893, he says: " In the inves- 

 tigation of a single vaccination period, the fact was re- 

 vealed that in quite fifty per cent, of all vaccinated in 

 that period (about seventy), the results were abnormal, 

 and, in a large number of these very grave injuries had 

 been inflicted. That the results of the practice are the 

 same elsewhere as in Congleton I have no reason to 

 doubt, for judging from what I have seen of his method 

 of vaccinating, our Public Yaccinator is as careful as 

 it seems possible for a Public Vaccinator to be." 



This evidence of Mr. Davidson is especially impor- 

 tant, because it reveals the fact that, as I stated some 

 pages back, neither Public Vaccinators nor ordinary 

 medical men usually know anything of the injurious 

 effects of vaccination, except in such individual cases as 

 may occur in their practice, while all around them there 

 may be a mass of evil results which, when systematically 

 investigated, proves as unexpected as it is startling in 

 its amount. 



This brief exposition of medical and official misstate- 

 ments of facts and figures, always in favor of vaccina- 

 tion, might have been largely increased ; but it is already 

 sufficient to demonstrate the position I take, which is 

 that in this matter of Official and Compulsory Vaccina- 

 tion, both doctors and Government officials, however 



