“The old story” – A short editorial on opposition to vaccines and its consequences… from Pottsville in 1903

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Amid a smallpox epidemic in Schuylkill County, a newspaper editor threw up their hands at those who refused to be vaccinated, despite very real danger.

A vaccination campaign for schoolchildren in Schuylkill County in the 1850s

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Medical officials and public school administrators worked together to enforce a mandate that students receive the smallpox vaccine in 1855.