Vaccination Inquirer Volume 5
April 1883 to March 1884
[The Vaccination Inquirer was the organ of the The National Anti-Vaccination League.]
HUMAN AND Bovine Tuberculosis p114
VACCINATION OF IMMIGRANTS—A SAD CASE p114
VACCINATION OF IMMIGRANTS p112-114
From DRS GEORGE AND F. E. HOGGAN
Medical Men and Vaccination-- Dr. Allinson
OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX AT BOURNE BRIDGE & CONDITION OF CAPETOWN.
Deaths from Erysipelas 1859-1880
Vaccine Disaster Record (1855--1880)
VACCINATION BE RIGUEUR. Dr. Whitefoord writes:—" I was called to see an
infant on September 18, aged twelve weeks, the son of Mrs. Darling, of 222,
Euston-road, who had been vaccinated six days previously. The mother stated that
she received two threatening notices to enforce the vaccination of her child,
and, although delicate, the operation was performed. Subsequently the child
refused food, wasted, and died on the seventeenth day. The vaccinated arm, well
hacked in four places, wasted more than the other arm.
At the time of vaccination the mother was informed that the
lymph from which her infant was vaccinated was only four times removed from the
calf. This assurance, however, ill-compensated the mother for the loss of her
child." Dr. Whitefoord refused to certify the cause of the child's death
without an inquest, holding that the death was due to acute meningitis caused by
vaccination, performed at the Government Vaccine Station, Tottenham Court-road.
The coroner, however, refused to hold an inquest, and the child was buried under
what is called a " coroner's order" — a convenient way of shielding vaccination
from reproach ! Dr. Lankester resorted to the same tactics in the case of
Moyes's child, also killed by vaccination at Kensal Green in 1872. (p.149)
VACCINATION DE RIGUEUR. 117, Albany-street, Regent's Park, October 22,1883.
Sir,—Respecting the death of Mrs. Darling's infant,
vaccinated on Sept. 12, and dying on Sept. 19, you say, " Dr. Whitefoord refused
to certify the cause of the child's death without an inquest." Kindly
allow me to state that in my communication to the Coroner for Central Middlesex,
I only said that I was "unable to certify." It was therefore a matter of
surprise to receive a letter from the Coroner's clerk, suggesting that I should
certify to death "as from Diarrhoea." I did not take the liberty of suggesting
to the Coroner that I considered it his duty to hold an inquest; and I cannot
see that it was any part of the Coroner's duty to suggest that I should give a
fanciful return to the Registrar. There was no doubt whatever in my mind that
the infant Darling died of Acute Meningitis set up by vaccination.
From my experience in Central Middlesex I do not think the
abuses of vaccination will be submitted to the light of truth in the Coroner's
Court. The modus operandi in vaccination inquiries seems to be the selection of
some medical witness who, after making a post-mortem examination, will
unblushingly ascribe death to starvation, sunstroke, or any cause foreign to the
case. Better far, I think, to bury under a Coroner's order, leaving the facts
untouched.—Yours truly, C. E. WHITEFOORD. [1883-1884 Book] Vaccination Inquirer
Volume 5 April 1883 to March 1884 p.209