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VII.—The laws of our country demand that every one should be
vaccinated, because persons who are unvaccinated are liable
to take small pox and die. The law does not allow the
right of a man to catch small pox or to expose his children
to it, as it docs not allow him to kill himself or his children.
It has been recently made unlawful for a man to accumulate
dirt and filth which may become the means of spreading
disease and death among his neighbours; and similarly the
law does not allow a man to make his body, or those of his
children, hot beds for the development of the deadly small
pox which may spread to his neighbours.
VIII.—Although very rarely the eruptions of other diseases have,
through the carelessness of medical practitioners, been mistaken
for cow pox, yet it would be as reasonable to ask for
the abolition of railways because of railway accidents as to
demand the abolition of vaccination on account of accidental
occurences.
IX.—The great means whereby small pox may be wholly exterminated
is universal vaccination.
X.—Small pox is one of the greatest curses to man, whilst vaccination
is one of his greatest blessings.
ON INFECTIOUS OR CATCHING DISEASES, AND THE
LEGAL MEANS OF PREVENTING THEIR SPREADING.
Extracts from the Sanitary Act.
1.—Catching or infectious diseases are scarlet fever, small pox,
typhus, typhoid, and relapsing fevers and measles.
2.—By the Sanitary Act of 1866 a penalty of £5 is inflicted on
any person who wilfully or negligently is the means of
spreading infectious or contagious diseases among their
friends or neighbours.
3.—It is illegal to use any public cab for the conveyance of a
patient to a hospital or anywhere else without telling the
driver that it is a case of infectious disease.