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If the Committee liave any further doubt as to tlie safety of
using these calves for food, I would recommend that
they write and obtain full information from the Local
Government Board as to the processes used at the
Vaccine Establishment, and the measures taken to
secure that no unsound veal is sold.
As the CaniberweLl letter appears to be a covert attack on
vaccination, it is necessary that I should again advise
you that vaccination is far the best means at our
disposal for combating the disease of Small-pox.
Nearly all medical authorities admit that vaccination is the
most powerful provision we possess for dealing with
Small-pox.
I am not acquainted with a single anti-vaccinationist,
professor, or lecturer in Public Health at any of the
Universities or Medical Schools in the Kingdom; a
single Medical Officer of Health of any large town in
England, Scotland, or Ireland, who is not an advocate
for vaccination; or a single standard work on Public
Health which decries vaccination.
The Medical Authorities of the Kingdom speak with one
voice, and say: 'If you wish to be protected from
Small-pox you must be vaccinated.'
In Germany, which must regretfully be allowed to be ahead
of England in medical science, the efficacy of vaccination
is even more unanimously recognised than in England,
with the result that it is so universally and efficiently
performed that that country is saved the vast expense of
building and maintaining large Small-pox Hospitals.
There may be some moral and pohtical question as to the
desirability of compulsory vaccination; also as to the
age at which it is desirable to perform infantile and
re-vaccination, and as to the duration of the protection