A brief history of vaccination in Northern Ireland

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With debates over human rights and Covid-19, BBC News NI looks back to a time when jabs were compulsory.

Closer to home, another early supporter of inoculation was Dr William Drennan of Belfast.

Dr Drennan took an active interest in the welfare of the inmates of the Belfast Poor House and children there began to be inoculated in 1782.'Dick's Bombshell' "Dick's Bombshell", as it became known, was a primary reason for the setting up of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation , which has had such an influence on the Covid-19 vaccination programme."When they stopped the compulsion the rates of vaccination dropped significantly," says Dr Seán Lucey.

Mandatory vaccination could be seen as an intrusive process that's "anti-autonomy and it can interfere with bodily integrity", he explained.

 

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