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The Public Health Committee, however, refused to take any
further steps, and the Council by a bare majority supported them.
Their reasons for doing so being that they did not see their way
to incur an annual expenditure of something like £500 to insure
against a contingency thev did not think likely to arise.
The Chairman of the Public Health Committee did his best
to convince them they were mistaken.
The Medical Officer of Health.s attitude may be best judged
from his previous reports.
It is to be feared that nothing but the experience of an
epidemic of this disease and its concomitant horrors will bring
conviction to the minds of a large section of the public.
It may be once again pointed out that should a case of Smallpox
be imported into our midst, in the absence of any Hospital
being available to which it can be sent, the case must be allowed
to remain at home to infect the neighbourhood, and so an epidemic
will be started, the results of which cannot be foreseen.
If everyone were efficiently vaccinated the necessity for
providing Hospital accommodation would not arise.
Objectors to vaccination should be among the strongest supporters
of Hospital segregation.
VACCINATION RETURNS.

.January 1st to June 30th,