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See: Sanitation vs. Vaccination quotes "The Leicester Method" by J.T. Biggs quotes
"The town of Leicester rejected vaccination in favour of sanitation. Her experience during the past fifty years makes nonsense of the claims of the pro-vaccinists. When her population was thoroughly vaccinated she suffered severely from smallpox. As vaccination declined to one per cent of the infants born, smallpox disappeared altogether."---- Lilly Loat [Book 1951] The Truth About Vaccination and Immunization
"The town of Leicester is, and has been for the last twenty years, the least vaccinated town in the kingdom. Its average population from 1873 to 1894 was about two-thirds that of the Army during the same period. Yet the small-pox deaths in the Army and Navy were thirty-seven per million, those of Leicester under fifteen per million."--- [1912 Book] LEICESTER: SANITATION versus VACCINATION BY J.T. BIGGS J.P.
"IT is true that since 1872 there
have been outbreaks of small-pox in Leicester, but, in each instance, the
disease has not only been imported from well "protected" localities, but, as
usually happens, these outbreaks started with well vaccinated or revaccinated
cases. Two of those invasions—viz., in 1892-94 and 1902-04—resulted in what were
termed "epidemics." Notwithstanding the fact that well vaccinated communities
were also attacked, and suffered to a far worse degree than Leicester, the
strong and definite attitude it has taken against vaccination made the town once
more the target of innumerable venomous shafts from the pro-vaccinists.
They appeared to have overlooked
the fact that in 1871-73, with nominally all the inhabitants vaccinated, 360
small-pox deaths occurred in a population of about 98,000, being a death-rate of
3,673 per million living. Whereas, in " unprotected " Leicester, in 1892-94,
there were only 21 small-pox deaths in a population of about 182,000, being only
115 per million living ; and in 1902-04 there were only 30 small-pox deaths in a
population of about 220,000, or only 136 per million living."----J.T.
BIGGS J.P. (1912 BOOK--LEICESTER: SANITATION versus VACCINATION)
"We find that these revaccinated soldiers and sailors have suffered in the thirty-one years during which the materials for comparison exist, to almost exactly the same extent as poor, half-starved, imperfectly vaccinated Ireland (p. 65)! )! Another and still more striking comparison is given. The town of Leicester is, and has been for the last twenty years, the least vaccinated town in the kingdom. Its average population from 1873 to 1894 was about two-thirds that of the Army during the same period. Yet the small-pox deaths in the Army and Navy were thirty-seven per million, those of Leicester under fifteen per million."-----ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898] VACCINATION A DELUSION
"Whether we examine the long-continued records of London mortality, or those of modern registration for England, Scotland, and Ireland; whether we consider the "control experiment" or crucial test afforded by unvaccinated Leicester, or the still more rigid test in the other direction, of the absolutely revaccinated Army and Navy, the conclusion is in every case the same: that vaccination is a gigantic delusion; that it has never saved a single life; but that it has been the cause of so much disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and altogether undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by the coming generation among the greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age, and its penal enforcement the foulest blot on the generally beneficent course of legislation during our century."-----ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898] VACCINATION A DELUSION
"In a recent number of the Leicester Free Press, it is said :—" So far as we are concerned in Leicester, a town containing 120,000 inhabitants, with many thousands of unvaccinated children, smallpox seems to be about the least dangerous of all diseases, and is not to be named by the side of scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diarrhoea, or even consumption. If a case of small-pox is discovered, instant isolation is adopted, and during the last five years we have hardly had five deaths. That being the state of the case, one need not wonder that the fear of the disease should disappear, or that resistance to vaccination should increase."--William Tebb 1881 http://www.whale.to/vaccine/tebb1.html
"That fearful (smallpox) mortality destroyed the faith of Leicester in vaccination. Poor and rich alike, the workers and even the municipal authorities began to refuse vaccination for their children. This refusal continued till, in 1890, instead of 95 percent the vaccinations reached only 5 percent of the births! As this ominous decrease of vaccination went on the doctors again and again prophesied against it, that once small-pox was introduced it would run through the town like wildfire and decimate the population. Yet it has been introduced again and again, but it has never spread; and from that day to this no town in the kingdom of approximately equal population has had such a very low small-pox mortality as this almost completely unvaccinated and--as the doctors say--unprotected population!"-----By Alfred Russel Wallace