234 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. xvm. 



evidence at our command; and in doing so we shall be 

 able to show that the medical experts, who have been 

 trusted by the Government and by the general public, 

 are no less deficient in their power of drawing accurate 

 conclusions from the official statistics of vaccination and 

 small-pox mortality than they have been shown to be in 

 their capacity for recording facts and quoting figures 

 with precision and correctness. 



and other forms of fever. This would be on the 18th March, 1865. 

 Eight days from the time of this rigor my patient w<is dead, and she 

 died of the most frightful form of blood poisoning that I ever wit- 

 nessed, and I have been forty-five years in the active practice of my 

 profession. After the rigor, a low form of acute peritonitis set in, 

 witli incessant vomiting and pain, which defied all means to allay. 

 At last, stercoraceous vomiting, and cold, clammy, deadty sweats of 

 a sickly odor set in, with pulselessness, collapse, and death, which 

 closed the terrible scene on the morning of the 26th March, 1865. 

 Within twenty minutes of death rapid decomposition set in, and 

 within two hours so great was the bloated and discolored condition 

 of the whole body, more especially of the head and face, that there 

 was not a feature of this once lovely girl recognizable. Dr. John 

 Cameron of 4 Rodney Street, Liverpool, physician to the Royal 

 Southern Hospital at Liverpool, met me daily in consultation while 

 life lasted. I have a copy of the certificate of death here. 



Q. 20,767. To what do you attribute the death there? I can 

 attribute the death there to nothing but vaccination. 



In the same Report, fifteen medical men give evidence as to dis- 

 ease, permanent injury, or death caused by vaccination. Two give 

 evidence of syphilis and one of leprosy as clearly due to vaccination. 

 And, as an instance of how the law is applied in the case of the poor, 

 we have the story told by Mrs. Amelia Whiting (QQ. 21,434-21,464). 

 To put it in brief, it amounts to this: Mrs. Whiting lost a child, 

 after terrible suffering, from inflammation supervening upon vaccina- 

 tion. The doctor's bill for the illness was 1 12s. 6d.; and a woman 

 who came in to help was paid 6s. After this first child's death, pro- 

 ceedings were taken for the non-vaccination of another child; and 

 though the case was explained in court, a fine of one shilling was 

 inflicted. And through it all, the husband's earnings as a laborer 

 were 11s. a week. 



