Transcribed from the 1870 Watson Brothers edition by DavidPrice, , using from images made availableby The Internet Archive.
COMPULSORY VACCINATION.
REPORT
OF A
PUBLIC MEETING,
HELD IN THE
MARYLEBONE VESTRY HALL,
LONDON,
ON
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1870.
PRICE THREEPENCE.
To be had of the Secretary ofthe League, or any Member
of the Committee.
PRINTED FORTHE
MARYLEBONE ANTI-COMPULSORY VACCINATION LEAGUE,
BY
WATSON BROTHERS, CHURCH STREET, MINORIES,E.
1870.
p. 2THE ST.MARYLEBONE
Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League,
FOUNDED 1869.
ExecutiveCommittee. | |
J. CAPLIN, Esq., M.D., F.A.S.L. C. T. PEARCE, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S. R. B. GIBBS, Esq. R. G. SNELL, Esq. F. H. HALLAM, Esq. | A. J. DAYMAN, Esq. Mr. ROBERT COLE. Mr. AARON EMERY. Mr. THOMAS HOBBS. Mr. GEORGE MARGERISON. |
This League has been established with the followingObjects:—
1.—To obtain the Repeal of the COMPULSORY Clause of theVACCINATION ACTS.
2.—To assist in defending Members, who may be prosecutedunder that Act.
Tickets of Membership may be obtained for One Shilling of anyMember of the Committee, by whom Donations and Subscriptions willbe thankfully received.
Or of the Hon. Secretary,
Mr. G. MARGERISON,
5, BLANDFORD STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE, W.
p.3REPORT.
On Wednesday Evening, October 19th, 1870, a Public Meeting,convened at the requisition, numerously signed, of the ratepayersof Marylebone, was held in the Vestry Hall of that largeMetropolitan Parish. The object of the Meeting, asannounced by advertisement, was “to take into considerationthe Acts of Parliament which render VaccinationCompulsory.”
The chair was occupied by R. Hallam, Esq. a Vestryman, who said, it wastwelve months that day, since a meeting was held in that hall,for the purpose of inaugurating a Marylebone Branch of theAnti-Vaccination League. Some gentlemen of the medicalprofession, subsequently said that if they had been present, theycould have upset all the arguments on the other side. Theexecutive of the Marylebone Branch had very straightforwardlysaid, they would be happy to meet those professional gentlemen,and the public notice which the secretary would read, invitedtheir presence. The notice having been read, the Chairmanproceeded to say it must be apparent to all that they were notassembled there to make pecuniary profit. They did not cometo receive vaccination fees, but to enter their protest againstsuch an iniquity. The subject they were to discuss was oneof the most important that could engage their attention. Agreat outcry had been raised about the