Compulsory vaccination
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vaccination · compulsory vaccination · the Vaccination Officer
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Law in a Free State
State-mandated smallpox vaccination policy, criticised both for its enforcement loophole via birth registration and as a self-perpetuating harm.
It has permitted its children for a generation to spread the loathsome disease smallpox by inoculation, and then it has compelled them to keep it alive by vaccination.
and yet it couples registration and vaccination together in such a way that an objector has only to omit to register his children, and he is at once freed from the unwelcome attentions of the Vaccination Officer.
Advocates of compulsory vaccination have been heard to say that they would willingly leave those who refuse the boon to perish of smallpox, but that unvaccinated persons are foci of infection, and must be suppressed in the common interest.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
A public-health measure believed by experts to prevent small-pox, resisted by some Englishmen in the name of freedom or conscience.
That vaccination, if rigidly enforced, would banish small-pox from England is believed by the vast majority of experts competent to form an opinion on such a matter.