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the statistics relating to which have been laid before 

 them with a wealth of detail not equalled in any other 

 case. Practically they ignore them altogether. Of course 

 I am referring to the Majority Report, to which alone 

 the Government and the unenlightened public are likely 

 to pay any attention. Even the figures above quoted as 

 to Leicester and Warrington are to be found only in the 

 Report of the Minority, who also give the case of another 

 town, Dewsbury, which has partially rejected vaccina- 

 tion, but not nearly to so large an extent as Leicester; 

 and in the same epidemic it stood almost exactly between 

 un vaccinated Leicester and well-vaccinated Warrington, 

 thus: 



Leicester, .... had 1.1 mortality per 10,000 living. 

 Dewsbury, .... " 0.7 " " " 

 Warrington, .... " 11.8 



Here again we see that it is the unvaccinated towns 

 that suffer least, not the most vaccinated. The public 

 of course have been terrorized by the case of Gloucester, 

 where a large default in vaccination was followed by a 

 very severe epidemic of small-pox. The Majority Re- 

 port refers to this in par. 373, intending to hold it up as 

 a warning, but strangely enough in so important a docu- 

 ment, say the reverse of what they mean to say, giving 

 to it " very little," instead of " very much " small-pox. 

 This case, however, has really nothing whatever to do 

 with the question at issue, because, although anti-vacci- 

 nators maintain that vaccination has not the least effect 

 in preventing or mitigating small-pox, they do not main- 

 tain that the absence of vaccination prevents it. What 

 they urge is that sanitation and isolation are the effect- 

 ive and only preventives; and it was because Leicester 



