VACCINATION IN CANADA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2170, 14 December 1885, Page 2

VACCINATION IN CANADA.

The anti-vaccination riots at Montreal will form a very striking incident in our colonial history. They are also full of suggestiveness to us in England. Montreal is suffering from an epidemic of smallpox, which is carrying off3oo victims a week, only 2 per cent, of whom are Protestants. The French Catholics object to be vaccinated. Protestant English, not content with saving their own lives, insist upon protecting. those of their French fellow-citizens by compelling them to submit to vaccination. It is probably not so much to save life as to restore business—for Montreal is shunned as a plague spot; but whatever the object, the French anti-vaccinatora have risen, swept the police from the streets, and are threatening to hang the Mayor and burn the house of the Chairman of the Health Board. Horse, foot, and artillery are being called out to pacify the rioters, but it is _ doubtful whether vaccination will be enforced after all. If capital punishment inflicted on 294 anti-vaccin-ators per week by smallpox fails to induce the French Canadians to consent to vaccination, it is difficult to see what mere municipal penalties can do in enforcing obedience.—Pall Mall Gazette.

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