Vaccination made compulsory in England and Wales
1853 · Event
Parliament requires infant smallpox vaccination, the state enforcing prevention for the first time, resisted by an organised anti-vaccination movement.
On these timelines: Medicine through Time, Pandemics & Plagues, Wales, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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