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will be to increase largely the number of children who fail to
get vaccinated, until an epidemic of small-pox occurs, when,
too often, the operation is done too late to secure the needed
protection.
The facts stated in the report show that the country is
becoming every year less protected against small-pox; in other
words, each year the number of unvaccinated children increases;
and, personally, I fail to discern any probability of a large increase
in the number of vaccinations (which is the primary
desideratum) should the Bill become law. I am not alone,
moreover, in regarding the Bill, in its present form, as a somewhat
poor outcome of the seven years' labours of the Royal
Commission ; this body having, in the judgment of unprejudiced
persons, demonstrated both the safety of vaccination,
and its efficiency, under prescribed conditions, as a protection
against small-pox.]