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Antityphoid Vaccination.— The French secretary of the navy has issued a circular stating that since the authorization of antitoxic vaccine by the French navy, 3,652 men have been vaccinated, that no bad results have followed in a single case, and that not one of the vaccinated persons has had typhoid fever. It would have been more convincing had he told us what percentage of unvaccinated persons under the same circumstances had fever. For aught we know, there may have been no fever in the navy.
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Typical Vaccination Scars Rare in Smallpox Patients.— Dr. C. A. Harper, of Madison, Wis., as a result of studying some eight hundred cases of smallpox, says that of this number only two had typical vaccination scars. The others were either unvaccinated, or else had scars indicating infection. He believes that it is extremely rare for a person who has been successfully vaccinated, that is, who has a typical vaccination scar, to contract smallpox.
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Vaccination Does Protect.— Dr. P. M. Hall, of Minneapolis, in his experience of about twelve years has seen about five thousand cases of smallpox, and some very virulent epidemics, but he never saw, so he says, a death from smallpox in a person who had been vaccinated.
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Vaccination and Smallpox.— Dr. C. N. Hensel, of St. Paul, Minn., says that he has examined about one thousand cases of smallpox, and of this number only four had been successfully vaccinated, and these four had not been vaccinated for periods varying from twenty to twenty-seven years. Such testimony as this is significant in view of the claim so often screeched from the housetops that “vaccination does not afford protection against smallpox.”
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Advises Vaccination for Vacationists.— Dr. Lederle, commissioner of health of New York City, has advised all persons going on a vacation to submit to antityphoid vaccination, which is administered free of charge by the health department.
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