VACCINATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 9 June 1902, Page 2

VACCINATION.

REV. HUGH PKIOK HUGHKS' OPINION.

The Rev. Hugh Pr'ce Hughes, M.A., holds very decided opinions on the subject of vaccination. He says:— " As the son of a nndici>l man, I was brought up lifter Ihe straitest soot of those who believe in vaccination, and 1 myfelf have b. en of:en viiccinnto i. ■ Of late y 1 ars, however, i have b. en ; compelled to the question, and I taiits produced bfcforo tlie Hoy a I Coin- \ mission have dually convinced me that 1 vaccination is a gr.~a * mistake, un I chat compulsory vaccination is one of 'he most fearful outrages of eacivd numan rights that celfishness and cowardice have ever devised. . If it is right to infect the healthy body of a hdpWs child with one foul disease, it is equally right to inf> e- it with every other; and that is the ideal of tha txtreme v-icci ration patty which firs'; loused try/ d ep concern. j " I greht/y lvgret th.it the noble modioli professi m, to which we are all so deeply indebted, shoul 1 hive been comm tt?d to a conflict with the human conscience. , . . A physician of the body has no more right to enter into a compromise with dis.ase than I have, as a physician of the soul, to [enter into a compromise »irh sin. The! tiuaruneiy for smallpox- as has al ready bien prove 1 in the case of al. allied dieea9ts —is such vijjoroui solitary rt form as we are all prepared to mpporf, if the medial profession will | only abandon its present mistiken and I suicidal attitude."