Ebook: Some Leading Arguments against Compulsory Vaccination

'Vaccination is evidently powerless in the absence of sanitation, and it may therefore be fairly inferred from this Indian experience that in towns under proper sanitary arrangements as to water supply, sewage removal, &c., the Jennerian operation is superfluous, and its compulsory infliction a survival of the vague philanthropy of an age of pre-scientific prophylacticism.'