Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-18 | Page 4 | To Test Vaccination Laws

TO TEST VACCINATION LAWS. The sentiment against compulsory vaccination of school children is running higher than ever this year. The death of a little girl at Harrisburg, Pa., from lockjaw produced by vaccination adds another to the list of victims. The Anti-Vaccination society at Washington is now fighting tho District of Columbia law requiring children to be vaccinated before entering school. The case will be taken to the supreme court and the question finally determined whether children can be inoculated against the will of their parents. , It is found that exceptions have been made in some cases and that certain favored children have been allowed to go without being vaccinated. The arguments made by" tho antics are that dangerous diseases may be communicated by the vaccine, and that smallpox is now such a rare disease that the risk does not justify compulsory vaccination. vac-cination. The great majority of doctors and the public favor vaccination. They point to the practical stamping out of smallpox which used to be a common scourge as a result of the system.