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Care of Wounds
EVERY wound, no matter how slight, may become infected with disease-producing germs unless proper care is taken to prevent such an occurrence, and it is almost entirely from this cause that deaths occur after vaccination. In Germany Voight estimated but one death in sixty-five thousand vaccinations, and in his own practise of five years he vaccinated one hundred thousand people with but one death. Compare this with the death-rate before vaccination, when from one in every twelve to twenty died with smallpox, and the life-saving effect of vaccination will be evident.— Bulletin. Cal. State Board of Health.
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Vaccination Protects
SINCE the reform of vaccination by the department in 1895, and the establishment of its standard of a protective vaccination, there has been in the intervening eleven years only one case of smallpox among the hundreds of thousands of children in attendance on genuine certificates of vaccination in the public and parochial schools of Chicago. Prior to 1895 there were frequent cases of the disease among children who had been vaccinated in the old method and with the old-time infected vaccine “points.”
On the other hand, there have been a score or more cases — some terminating in death and the remainder in hideous disfigurement — among unvaccinated school children admitted to school attendance on certificates falsely asserting that they had been ” successfully vaccinated.” On examination — as in the cases of the Brown School children — the only positive proof of a “successful vaccination,” namely, the presence on the child’s person of the typical vaccinal cicatrix, was never found in a single instance. — State of Chicago’s Health.
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THE cholera epidemic in the Philippines seems to be losing its force. None of the natives who were inoculated with the vaccine prepared by the government contracted the disease.
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL CORSON, of Pennsylvania, has stated his opinion that according to Pennsylvania law, all school children, whether attending public or private school, must either be vaccinated or leave school. Perhaps, later, they will not allow unvaccinated children on the streets. But here is a poser for those who favor radical measures: Vaccination either protects, or it does not. If it protects, the unvaccinated can not be a menace to the vaccinated. If it does not protect, it is useless. If the unvaccinated is only a menace to himself and others who rather run the risk of smallpox than those of vaccination, it is his privilege as an American citizen to remain unvaccinated. The Declaration of Independence asserts the right of the individual to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” If remaining unvaccinated and contracting smallpox is a part of his program for securing happiness, it is his privilege — or should be — so long as in the exercise of that privilege he does not menace others.
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