ENFORCED VACCINATION.

Legal technicalities often stand in the way of enforcement of salutary regulations, and the courts apparently make the most of them when a possibility of invasion of the liberty of the citizen comes within their mental vision. This is praiseworthy enough when controlled by common sense, and even in health matters the intervention of the law in favor of individual rights as opposed to alleged sanitary necessity may sometimes be wholesome and necessary. Health authorities are not infallible or always judicious, even in their own specialty, and it may be that they sometimes need a check. When, however, it is pointed out that a general legal principle stands in the way of the most essential sanitary precautions, it is unfortunate, to say the least. We have already editorially noticed a decision of the Illinois Supreme Court that enforced vaccination was illegal, unless during the prevalence of smallpox, and now we