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Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League

A Victorian campaigning group rather than a single writer, this league left behind a vivid record of public resistance to compulsory vaccination in 19th-century London. Its surviving publication captures the arguments, anxieties, and political language of a heated public-health debate.

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Compulsory Vaccination Report of a Public Meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870.

Compulsory Vaccination Report of a Public Meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870.

by Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League

About the author

The Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League was an organized campaigning group in London, not an individual author. It is best known for Compulsory Vaccination: Report of a Public Meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870, a publication that preserves the proceedings of a public meeting held during a period of intense argument over vaccination laws in Britain.

Library and archival records identify the league as the named author of that report, and modern catalog entries treat it as a corporate author. The work is valuable today less as medical guidance than as a historical document: it shows how activists framed objections to state health measures, appealed to public opinion, and organized around questions of personal liberty and government authority.

Because this was a league rather than a person, there is no confirmed personal biography or official portrait to present here. What remains is the printed trace of a local pressure group whose publication offers a direct window into Victorian anti-vaccination activism.