Show british vaccination law LONDON oct 0 special at the westminster police court to daf justice shell presiding ferdinand longman a working cabinet maker residing in chelsea Gb Cb elesa elsea appeared in re to a summons charging him with refusing to allow the vaccination in accordance with the law of his hia infant daughter ida louise longman has a large family and this is the sixty fifth time lime that he has appeared before the banch for placing one or another of bis children out of the jarie jurisdiction diction of the vaccination officers the most extraordinary tra ordinary feature of the present case however is the fact that the child concerned died two months ago yesterday and is interred in hanwell cemetery longman was wag originally summoned during the first airet week in august but in consequence of his ill health the proceedings were adjourned until today and the child has died in the interim the defendant who has been prominent in the agitation against the of the vaccination laws pleaded no jurisdiction the evidence in the case being no longer in existence esi stence and handed in a pathetic 1 statement to the court in this he said 1 I have suffered buffered in patience when ray my home was seized and I 1 and ray my family were left poor po orand and homeless I 1 bowed my head in sorrowful resignation when I 1 was taken to prison for this truly delightful law takes no heed of the wife and tl a 9 helpless children when it seizes on the breadwinner it knows and cares nothing of seized homes and broken hearts am I 1 to be silent and now that ray my little baby is dead now tart the grass grasa covers the tiny coffin Is there no remedy Is not this persecution inhuman does it not go to heart the idea of a father being prosecuted for ref refusing ing to vaccinate a child whom god has taken to his arms seems to me in this land of liberty to be incredible and revolting beyond expression the tha court took the matter under advisement |