Anti-vaccination, a view from 1915. (1 Viewer)

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When I read up on a subject I try to get both sides of the story. Here's a person's view of vaccines, and mandatory vaccination, from 1915, before vaccines became commonplace. It might be a good view to see 1) their attitudes back then, 2) the problems and questions about vaccines back then.

https://archive.org/details/crimeagainstscho00higg_0_201804

In these formats: PDF, text, and more. EPUB is probably unproofed.

A search on archive.org finds more texts about vaccines from Trung Nguyen here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=vaccines 1915 higgins

If you don't know what Archive.org is, it's a way to upload and store books, audio files, even videos. They have huge collections of each. You can view the PDF online through their own viewer which pages through books like a real, dead tree book. AFAIK they are politically neutral.

My New Earth Wiki page on vaccinations, which has more reading material, is here: https://newearth.miraheze.org/wiki/Anti-vaccination

 

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Here are some entries from the TOC, which the book calls "Index". I made important points in bold.

Introduction—The Fundamental Legal and Medical Fact Against All Compulsory Vaccination . 3

The New School Vaccination Law, Now in Force in New York State, Different for City and Country. 5

Mr. Loyster’s Peculiar Work in the Passage of This Law. Compulsion Removed From His Own Country Schools and Put on All Our City Schools with Double Pay for the Vaccinators. 7

Political Cowardice and Medical Craft in Passage of This Law Which Places Compulsory Vaccination on All Schools in the Ten Leading Cities of the State and Removes it from the Small Towns and Country Districts . 7

Mr. Loyster’s Remarkable Pamphlet Showing the Death of His Own Boy and Many Other Children From Vaccination in 1914.. 7

Smallpox Ten Times More Frequent in Country Than City. Absurdity and Illegality of the Loyster Law Shown. 10

How to Legally Evade and Defeat the New Law. 10

First Defense: Doctor’s Certificate of Danger to Health or Life now Accepted in Schools Under Rule of Department of Education.. 10

Deaths of 30 Children From Vaccination in 1914. 11

The Greatest Sin in the Moral Code Committed by Vaccinators. Denying Danger and Death from Vaccination. Impugning the Known Truth. 11

Second Defense: (For City Parents) Change Residence to Country. 12

Third Defense: Private Schools and Constitutional Rights. 12

Compulsory Vaccination Legally a Crime. Court Decisions Cited. 12

Fourth Defense: Criminal Prosecution of Vaccinators Under Common Law and Penal Code.. 13

Fifth Defense: No Legal Power Exists to Compel Vaccination. 14

Vaccination Law Conflicts with Education Law and District School Officers Have Power to Suspend Vaccination Law and Admit Unvaccinated Children, According to Decision of Department of Education by Commissioner Draper in 1912. 14

No Law in the State to Compel Vaccination. Decision of State Courts and U. S. Supreme Court Given. 14

Decision of Court of Appeals in Ekerold Case Explained. A Law Exists to compel Education of Children But No Law Exists to Compel Vaccination of Children or to Fine Parents for Failure to Vaccinate. 15

Decision of Commissioner Draper of Department of Education in the Case of the Town of Olean in 1912. Legal Discretion to Suspend Vaccination Exists in All Local School Officers. 16

Deaths from Vaccination Greater than Deaths from Smallpox. Shocking Figures Given by Registrar-General of England. 19

Public Rebuke and Challenge Given to Our Vaccinating Doctors and Health Officials Who Deny and Conceal Deaths from Vaccination. 19

Compulsory Vaccination Not Necessary to Prevent Smallpox. Sanitation and Hygiene More Important and Effective. 20

The Leicester Method. Preventing Smallpox Without Vaccination. In Use for Over Thirty Years in the Model Sanitary and Manufacturing City of Leicester, England... 21

A Most Important Point: Vaccination Admittedly Spreads and Increases Smallpox . 22