THE VACCINATION QUESTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 160, 20 February 1869, Page 4

THE VACCINATION QUESTION.

, To the Editor of the Marlborough Express. . It is not often that the columns of your oontemporarythe News comes within the range of my vision, but I did happen to see a certain article of his the other day, in which he animadverts somewhat strongly on the appointment of a Public Vaccinator. On reading that, and the letter in your correspondence column, signed L. Ki Horne, I felt inclined to reply, but on second thought, I considered them both to be too mean arid scuwilons to be worthy of notice. As they have,- however, obtained more notoriety than their merits deserved, I would beg a small space for a few observations iri ; defence of Truth and Justice. ■ In the first place, I know that the Government folly justified in the

appointment they have made by the previous action of the party who feels, or pretends to feel, himself aggrieved ; and secondly, I consider the appointment justified by the fact, that the gentleman who holds it, has never disgraced himself or his profession at the bar of a public house, nor does he go crying about the town the names of those, who owe him a few shillings, nor who he intends to summon ; neither does he, for the amusement of a half-drunken audience, recite stale scandal, and obscene jests, at the expense of those he professionally attends. “ If some like to do it, Tis nothing to me ; But these, Sir, are things I don’t like to see.” I am, &c., Caustic. Renwick-Road, Feb. 18.