That the principle of the Compulsory Vaccination Acts is subversive of that personal liberty which is the birthright of every free-born Briton; that they are destructive of parental rights, tyrannical and unjust in operation, and ought therefore to be resisted by every constitutional means. (121)

That the Compulsory Vaccination Acts, which make loving and conscientious parents criminals, subjecting them to fines, loss of goods, and imprisonment, propagate disease and inflict death, and under which five thousand of our fellow-townsmen are now being prosecuted, are a disgrace to the Statute Book, and ought to be abolished forthwith. (122).

The last decade has witnessed an extraordinary decrease in vaccination, but, nevertheless, the town has enjoyed an almost entire immunity from small-pox, there never having been more than two or three cases in the town at one time. A new method for which great practical utility is claimed has been enforced by the sanitary committee of the Corporation for the stamping out of small-pox is one of the least troublesome diseases with which they have to deal. The method of treatment, in a word, is this: --As soon as small-pox breaks out, the medical man and the householder are compelled under penalty to at once report the outbreak to the Corporation. The small-pox van is at once ordered by telephone to make all arrangements, and thus, within a few hours, the sufferer is safely in the hospital. The family and inmates of the house are placed in quarantine in comfortable quarters, and the house thoroughly disinfected. The result is that in every instance the disease has been promptly and completely stamped out at a paltry expense. Under such a system the Corporation have expressed their opinion that vaccination is unnecessary, as they claim to deal with the disease in a more direct and much more efficacious manner. This, and a widespread belief that death and disease have resulted from the operation of vaccination, may be said to be the foundation upon which existing opposition to the [Compulsory Vaccination] Acts rests.

The Dangers of Unvaccinated Persons Contracting Small-Pox.-- Moreover, the experience of Leicester during the recent epidemic, as in the previous epidemic (1892-93) ten years ago, seems to show that where modern measures are carried out, unvaccinated persons run less risk of contracting small-pox, even in the presence of an epidemic, than is usually supposed. It was predicted that once the disease got amongst the unvaccinated children of Leicester it would "spread like wildfire." I certainly expected this myself when I first came to Leicester, and it caused me much anxiety all through the epidemic. Yet although, during the ten months the epidemic lasted, 136 children (under fifteen years) were attacked, inflicted largely by once-vaccinated adults, it cannot be said that the disease ever showed any tendency to "catch on" amongst the entirely unvaccinated child population... I have said enough to show that the "Leicester Method" in Leicester succeeded better than was anticipated. (510-511)

Leicester stands as an example, probably the first, where measures other than total reliance on vaccination were introduced successfully to eradicate the disease from the community...A system of immediate notification, isolation, and quarantine of contacts is one which has proved particularly effective in containing and limiting smallpox. (133)

This "experiment" in Leicester of over sixty years "showed that the method was successful, it also demonstrated that established scientific thinking could be mistaken" (137).

The experience of unvaccinated Leicester is an eye-opener to the people and an eye-sore to the pro-vaccinists the world over. Here is a great manufacturing town having a population of nearly a quarter of a million, which has demonstrated by a crucial test of an experience extending over a period of more than a quarter of a century, that an unvaccinated population has been far less susceptible to small-pox and far less afflicted by that disease since it abandoned vaccination than it was at a time when ninety-five per cent of its births were vaccinated and its adult population well re-vaccinated. (138).

Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History

Humphries, Dr. Suzanne, and Roman Bystrianyk, Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History Biggs, J.T., Leicester: Sanitation versus Vaccination , http://www.whale.to/a/biggs.html Fraser, Stuart M., Medical History , "Leicester and Smallpox: The Leicester Method," https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1082657/?page=1 Casperson, Kate, "Comparative Study on Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated children in the Journal of Translational Sciences," http://healthandvaccines.blogspot.com/2017/05/comparative-study-on-vaccinated-vs.html

This was followed by Mr. William Young's (the secretary of the London Society) remark:In the meeting after the demonstration, where the platform held "delegates from more than 60 towns," the following resolution was passed unanimously (122):The demonstration was a success for those involved, and it allowed Leicester the freedom to use the methods they found most effective to handle smallpox cases and epidemics. Here's a description of the Leicester Method taken from the article "Anti-Vaccination Demonstration at Leicester" in, March 24, 1885:The vaccine supporters from the medical profession were eager to spurt prophesies of anticipated doom for Leicester with its highly unvaccinated population (I think less than 10% were vaccinated), but their prophesies never came to pass (127).In fact, in the 1893 smallpox outbreak, Leicester's mostly unvaccinated population fared much better than the highly vaccinated: "...Leicester, with a population under ten years of age practically unvaccinated, had a small-pox death-rate of 144 per million; whereas Mold [in Flintshire, England], with all the births vaccinated for eighteen years previous to the epidemic, had [death-rates] of 3,614 per million" (127-28).That's a big difference! It was seen again during the 1891-94 small-pox outbreak: "...the highly vaccinated town of Birmingham had 63 smallpox cases and 5 deaths per 10,000 of population, compared with Leicester at 19 cases and 1 death per 10,000" (128).The phenomenon repeated itself over and over again.In his paper, "Leicester: Sanitation versus Vaccination", J.T. Biggs writes: "Leicester's small-pox history, and her successful vindication of sanitation as a small-pox prophylactic, will bear the closest scrutiny. Each successive epidemic since vaccination has decreased, with a larger proportion of unvaccinated population, furnishes a still lower death-rate" (Biggs 459-460).C. Killick Millard, MD, who was the minister of health in Leicester observed the following in 1904:Dr. Millard made another very meaningful observation that "even if vaccination did reduce the severity of smallpox, it still couldn't stop the spread of the disease, because. [...] Dr. Millard concluded that infantile vaccination played a much smaller part in limiting the spread of smallpox than was generally predicted and that" (Humphries, 130).In Stuart M. Fraser's article from, published in 1980, he made the following remark on the Leicester Method:In Dr. J.W. Hodge's (MD) paper, "How Small-Pox was Banished from Leicester," published in 1911, he said:So, back to my initial remark regarding my post on the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study published in the. This Leicester example serves as one of the first vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies--dating back to the 1880s! It's a great example of thinking outside the box and seeing what really works for an illness instead of just assuming vaccination is the only solution to all disease problems. It also serves to illustrate how well-designed our immune systems are when allowed to work as intended in conjunction with good nutrition, proper sanitation and hygiene, and strategic management and care of the infected.My heartfelt thanks to Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk for their book:. It is truly an eye-opener and well worth the time spent reading! Here is a link to the book's website: http://www.dissolvingillusions.com/ Sources: