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(3.) The objections made to vaccination on the ground of
injurious effects alleged to result therefrom; and the
nature and extent of any injurious effects which do, in
fact, so result.
(4 ) Whether any, and, if so, what means should be adopted,
for preventing or lessening the ill effects, if any, resulting
from vaccination; and whether, and, if so, by what
means, vaccination with animal vaccine should be
further facilitated as a part of public vaccination.
(5.) Whether any alterations should be made in the arrangements
and proceedings for securing the performance of
vaccination, and, in particular, in the provisions of the
Vaccination Acts with respect to prosecutions for noncompliance
with the Law.
The Commissioners appointed were the following:—Farrer,
Baron Herschell, Sir James Paget, Sir Charles Dalrymple, Sir
William Guyer Hunter, Sir Edwin Henry Galsworthy, William
Scovell Savory, Charles Bradlaugh, John Syer Bristowe, William
Job Collins, John Stratford Dugdale, Michael Foster, Jonathan
Hutchinson, James Allanson Picton, Samuel Whitbread, and
Frederick Meadows White, Esqrs. On the death of Mr. Bradlaugh,
John Albert Bright, Esq., was appointed in his place.
During the succeeding years the Commissioners issued
several interim reports containing the evidence taken before them.
The final report was issued in 1896, and contains the conclusions
at which the Commissioners arrived, in three separate reports.
The majority report signed by all the Commissioners, except
Mr. Picton and Dr. Collins, with separate reports on side issues
by Sir W. Guyer Hunter and Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, and a
further note of reservation by Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Bright,
Dr. Collins, and Mr. Picton. All these will be found on subsequent
pages, with a dissentient report by Dr. Collins and Mr.
Picton, giving the views of the extreme opponents of vaccination
following.