Vaccination in India
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Dated Myaungmya, the llt/t April 1910. Sill,?In the British Medical Journal, 26th February 1910, leutenant Colonel Andrew Buchanan, I.M.S., has adduced some valuable evidence in favour of vaccination and has appealed to the _ Anti-Vaccination party to ascertain, by peisonal observation or enquiry, what are the results when vaccination has been neglected, before spreading abroad in India pernicious literature in which vaccination is strongly condemned. In an editorial on page 525 of that journal it is stated in reference to this action of the National Antiaccination League that there are indications that India is reatened with a danger the consequences of which might easily prove more disastrous than either sedition or revolutionary agitations. Colonel Andrew Buchanan has rightly observed that, if the old men in villages in India, which previously had been devastated by small-pox, were asked what aie the greatest boons which have been conferred on them J,:!?e -"^t'sh Government, they will reply, first, security or lire and property, and, secondly, the prevention of smallP?x ,"y vaccination. These conclusions have been arrived
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