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BOROUGH OF HACKNEY.
Town Half,
Hackney, N.E.
4th October, 1905.
Vaccination as a Preventive of Small Pox.
Sir,
I am directed by the Borough Council of Hackney to forward
you copy of resolutions adopted by the Council, at their last
meeting, upon the above subject, as follows:—
1.—That in the opinion of this Council the time has now
arrived for the Government to institute a thorough enquiry into
the general question of vaccination as a preventive of Small-pox,
having regard to the advance of medical science, and the public
rejection of vaccination by so many medical men, since the last
Report of the Royal Commission on this question.
The enquiry to embrace:—
(a) The supply of pure lymph and the danger to the public
of vaccinated calves being sold for food.
(b) The administration of the various Vaccination Acts with
special regard to the cost to the Ratepayers.
(c) The hardships inflicted upon poor conscientious
jectors, who apply for exemption certificates under the
Act of 1898, by the unwillingness of many Justices of
the Peace and Stipendiary Magistrates to grant certificates
of exemption in compliance with the spirit of
the Act.
(d) The closing of Government departments and other
works to conscientious objectors, or the children of