August 27, 2023
Hidden History of Vaccination
Part 1: The 1800s
For hundreds of years infectious diseases were rampant all over the industrial world, largely due to hideous, unsanitary conditions, at a time when people worked 12-16 hours a day in unsafe factories, leaving their children to roam streets filled with animal and human waste. Housing consisted of overcrowded tenements with no access to clean water or indoor plumbing. In addition, child labor was in practice and widespread. This was the lot of the poverty-stricken masses who bore the brunt of infectious diseases such as scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis. Widespread epidemics occurred regularly. Malnutrition was the norm for the poor.
The decline in infectious diseases started around the turn of the 20th century, largely due to engineering – not medicine – when indoor plumbing, sewage systems, clean water, and laws protecting the populace from bad food, as well as child labor laws and schooling for children, became common place in industrial cities.
An interesting case history is the story of the manufacturing town of Leicester in the UK. In 1885 there was a mass protest against an unjust law forced upon the citizenry by the British government. Vaccination for smallpox had been around since 1800 with enforcement beginning in 1840. By 1853 the law required every child be vaccinated within three months of birth. Refusing smallpox injections was a crime punishable by fines or imprisonment.
Despite these laws, a massive smallpox epidemic hit Leicester, all of England and other parts of the world in the early 1870’s. In Leicester, there were thousands of cases of smallpox and hundreds of deaths. Many lost faith in vaccination. Nevertheless, the government implemented crackdowns that became much more aggressive with enforcers going from house to house, confiscating belongings if fines couldn’t be paid, and imposing imprisonment for non-compliance. After massive demonstrations involving up to 100,000 people, with support from some 60 towns and counties, the following resolution was adopted:
“That the Compulsory Vaccination Acts, which makes 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 prosecuted, are a disgrace to the Statute Book, and ought to be abolished forthwith.”
Despite this mass refusal, the medical establishment doubled down on their dogma, and proclaimed that the residents of Leicester would pay the price. However, a change in leadership at the local level meant that Leicester could successfully implement their plan of sanitation, hygiene, contact tracing and isolation of the sick – instead of vaccination – and in so doing, the town enjoyed almost entire immunity from smallpox unlike surrounding communities. This became known as the “The Leicester Method.”
By 1948 when compulsory vaccination ended in England, Leicester had been using their method for 62 years. During that time, there were only 53 deaths from smallpox. In the fourteen years 1933-1946 there were only 28 deaths in a total population of some 40 million, and among those 28 not a single death of an infant under one year of age.
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Next: Part 2, the 1900’s
