... However,itis worthy of note that whereas formerly it was claimed for vaccination by its advocates that it would stamp out small-pox, the terms of the resolution only claim that it controls that disease, a qualification of the case which would seem to ...

... to pass without comment. I ill put one question to your intelligent readers, including Mr Sheen. Does vaccination prevent small-pox ? I maintain it does not. It is a system that has been fairly tested for a hundred years by the people of this country, and ...

... tailoring. The weekly returns showed 16 vaccinations in the Merthyr and 25 in the Aberdare district, there being no case of small-pox expended in out-relief, £203 7s; children at the Aberdare Industrial Schools, 126, compared with 123 in the corresponding ...

... effect in checking that efficient vaccination which is so necessary to the control of amall-pox. The protection against small-pox is undoubted, but to those who have not yet made up their minds on this point I would recommend a perusal of an admirable ...

... lire ransom. SEVERE SMALLI-OX EPIDEMIC IN NORWAY.— A Copenhagen telegram of July 2nd says: I an: sorry to say that a severe smallpox epidemic has broken out in Christiania. Intending tourists to that pare of Europe should delay completing their arrangements ...

... permission to keep children in ignorance ought to be granted for half-a-crown, since ignor- ance is not catching, while small-pox is. It has been said that Ireland and Scotland have no provisions for repeated fines. This is an error. The new law upsets ...

... Walter Williams is. Yours, &c., THOMAS MATTHEWS. VACCINATION. The vaccination officers reported that there were no cases of small-pox in the district, and that there had been 16 cases of vaccination in Aberdare, and 25 in the Merthyr district. THE POTATO ...

... and a considerable number of persons have set it openly defiance, alleging that, not only do* vaccination fail to prevent small-pox mitigate its ravages, but (hat it often i troduces into the system the germs diseases even more fatal, more loathsome and ...

... determined to agitate against a measure founded upon a principle applied to no other offence. If permission to propagate small-pox is to be granted for a guinea, then permission to keep children in ignorance ought to be granted for half a crown, since ...

... considerable number of persona have set it openly at defiance, alleging that, not only does vaccination fail to prevent small-pox or mitigate its ravages, but that it often in- troduces into the system the germs of diseases even more fatal, more loathsome ...

... or destruction of game, a Bill for driving our manufactures to other countries, and another for facilitating the spread of smallpox' The electors would have preferred the steadier and wore real progress. of Gonservatis m to the' wild and dangerous proposals ...

... vaccination, The cousepquenre is that it is calculatei that fifteen per cent of its population have not been vaccinated. Smallpox has broken out with considerable virulence, and there appears to be ev-ery probability of its assuming extensive proportions ...