ANTI-VACCINATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 3 December 1910, Page 5

ANTI-VACCINATION.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—'l he following is clipped from your own columns, viz, "The virus which is now used in vaccination permits of no transmission of disease from one child to another. It is guaranteed absolutely pure. There can therefore be 110 longef a prejudice on this score. The position is so serious that the Legislature should insist upon the rigid enforcement of the law. If the Act is allowed to remain a dead letter, as in the wast, Parliament will be morally culpable in the event of a calamity." 1 would respectfully ask , why do you deliberately make such a statement regard ing the virus'now used in vaccination? And, further, T suggest that Tompulsion belongs to the dark ages, and has no rightful place in an enlightened civilisation When a man or any body of men wants to compel you to think or to act according to his or their dictum he or they wants to exploit you in some way. Before we scart out compelling people to do this and that, we want to be sure we are absolutely right. How can this be done when the history of medicine is replete with discarded remedies and practises. But to afford you an opportunity of proving that the Dominion's virus is pure, please answer the following question, viz. What is the nature and origin of the material used at the Dominion's Vaccine Farm, for inoculating animals in the production of vaccine. Is the seed virus of variolous origin, oils it humanised cow-pox?—l am, dear sir,

MICROSCOPE. Dunedin, November 30th, 1910. (Our correspondent has probably readonly a portion of our article, which was extracted and published in the columns of the Dunedin Star. In stating that the virus used was pure; we intended to convey that it was the pure calf lymph, and not the virus taken from inoculated children. : Our '•''correspondentiß ; .en ; titled 'o his own opinion on the subject of foinpulbion. If compulsion belongs to t e Dark Ages, then the, sooner the police, and !.aw Court *' and Legislature are dispensed witU tfce better. —Ed. Age.)