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rumour lies, this degradation was forced upon
the Government by political exigency, but,
whatever the cause, it has thrown back progressive
sanitation for an indefinite period, casts
an indelible slur upon its authors, and forms a
curious commentary upon the dogma of their
great chief who taught the doctrine of sanitas
sanitatem, omnia sanitas.
It needs no prophetic power to forecast the
outcome of this departure from the true principles
of preventive medicine. At the appointed time
when the usual cycle of events brings a visitation
of Small-pox, we shall see our fellow beings,
some disfigured for life, others hopelessly blind.
The Nemesis representing the righteous anger
of the gods will in due course inevitably claim
the penalty for this wicked violation of the
established and abundantly proved protection
afforded by vaccination, and it will be but poetic
justice and in accordance with the irony of events,
if its authors and their descendants are the first
victims ;-and few will pity them !