ANTI-VACCINATION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 4' SPECTATOR."]
'Sin,—The Gladstonian candidate for the Harborough Division of Leicester having appealed to the Anti-Vaccinationists, the Spectator of May 9th, in announcing the fact, somewhat enviously adds :—" We do not know whether there arc any posters : Vote for Logan and Unlimited Small-Pox.' " How unfortunately it happened for the author of this remark that it was Leicester, of all places in the world, to which it had to be applied,—Leicester, where vaccination is almost altogether abandoned, and where small-pox is singularly rare ! In sani- tation, or "unlimited" cleanliness, Leicester has discovered a surer and a safer way of preventing small-pox than in the inoculation of cow-pox; and so " contagious " is Leicester's example, that in seventy or eighty places in England, vaccina- tion is being superseded by sanitation ; and until it can be shown that small-pox is increasing where vaccination is de- clining, there can be no " sweet reasonableness " in the sug- gestion that to vote for a candidate opposed to the practice, or rather to its compulsory infliction, is to vote for" unlimited FA fine day is no proof of climate.—ED. Spectator.]
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