A LITTLE PROCLAMATION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3204, 5 October 1881, Page 2

A LITTLE PROCLAMATION.

BY THE GOVEBNHENT TO THE PEOPLE. Come ! a truce to hesitation! Just submit to vaccination, To condemn to extirpation one particular disease ; And in place of one affection You can have a whole selection— Any number of diseases —any quantity you please. Mind we don't provide a station For efficient vaccination, And we've taken no precautions for its being rightly done ; As to run about inquiring For a heifer will be tiring, And you'll find yourself perspiring, for you'll have so far to run. Lor ! But don't be sinking hearted ; If you want the lymph imparted You will only have to choose among the babies which abound ; Let distrust for ever slumber— Every one among the number Is the finest and healthiest for many miles around. It will all be pleasant sailing Till you find your system ailing From the malady imparted by some healthy little man; — Not a babe, from bound to border, But inherits some disorder Big or little from its daddy, or its mammy, or its gran. We are not prepared to answer For its being gout or cancer, Or a member of the army of diseases of the skin, For it might be indigestion — As its quite an open question — Or consumption, or a bunion that you'll gaily revel in. There, of course, is no foreseeing As to chances of its being Some deplonble incurable affection of the brain; There, it can't be pre-detected How you'll find yourself affected, But you won't enjoy immunity, wo tell you once again. So submit to legislation, And apply for vaccination To condemn to extirpation one particular complaint ; And instead of one affection You can have a whole selection j So you'll kindly choose your favourite hereditary taint. Vaccination. From Fun, May 4.