Talk:William Tebb

When was Tebb's last prosecution? In 1898 the vaccination law was amended to allow exemption for parents, based on conscience, which introduced the concept of "conscientious objector" into English law Was it substantially before 1898?

This article about a person gives only a single flavour of them - did he do anything else? And, why? Midgley 22:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Sequence...
"His interest in vaccination was started when " If he had made a reasoned decision to resist immunisation of his daughter, surely his interest would have started _before_ she was called forward for immunisation, not after. If it were the other way around, then it would be a suggestion that he acted - for whatever reason - and only afterward beccame interested in the subject and constructed a framework of thought to account for his actions, and decided to present it to others.

(YOu could have been right, but I think one would have to have direct evidence that he had shown no interest, acquired no knowledge base for decision befor making a decision about his daughter's healthcare.Midgley 22:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Again... "The persecution made him into " won't do. He was an opponent before he was prosecuted, obviously. If he hadn't been an opponent of it, he wouldn't have been prosecuted. As to persecution, that is a value judgmeent, but he appears not to have been imprisoned, remained free to visit the USA, wrote and spke extensively, and while he may have been asked to pay fines, is there any indication available that they weer actually collected?

It sounds like a rather modest and gentle persecution, and I think in those days people still got persecuted properly when the State had a mind to.

"horse"; "cart";"before" into correct order arrange words the. Midgley 22:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Residence
He is given as living at Rede Hall, Burstow, Surrey, in the title of a colelction of letters relating to travel in India, where he was interested in Leprosy. Dates?

Interests and Bibliography
"From contemporary medical sources, William Tebb compiled 219 instances of narrow escape from premature burial, 149 cases of actual premature burial, 10 cases in which bodies were accidentally dissected before death, and 2 cases in which embalming was started on the not-yet-dead."Snopes Midgley 01:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Conscientious objection
...in 1898, introducing the concept of conscientious objector into English law.

Nope. It had existed since at least 1833, when the Separatists Affirmation Bill gave Christian sects with doctrinal principles forbidding oath-taking the right to opt out on grounds of "conscientious objection". - House Of Lords report, Friday, Aug. 9. / The Times, Saturday, Aug 10, 1833. Tearlach 02:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

A Merchant...
So he bought and sold ... what? Was that why he went to India, as he presumably did (big place India...)?

Midgley 22:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * No idea so far. Nadja Durbach's Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 describes him simply as "a wealthy merchant". The outro to his book Leprosy and Vaccination says he went near-as-dammit everywhere www.whale.to/v/tebb/app7.html. None of the news articles or his letters to the Times say what he did. Tearlach 23:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)