The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-04-05

INDECENT pupils, shall be paid upon the
order of such board of health, town
council or township trustees, out of any |
funds in the corporation or township /
treasury, applicable thereto All fines
collected Tor violation OF the provisions |
OF this act. shall be paid into the school |
tund Of the county or city in which the |
offence occurred.
SIC. 5. Tire several boards having con- |
troll OF the state or county charitable, re-
iormatory. or penal institutions, shall
require the physician in charge thereof
TO vaccinate all the inmates of said insti
tuition without rrspect to any previous
vaccination and all persons admittsS
ther. alter shall be vaccinated upon their
admission, and all such persons a. are
confined for a term OF years, or for lie.
shall be vaccinatrd every five years.
SEC 5. That all cities having a popula
ton OF more than thirty-one thousand at
the last federal census, shall be required
TO establish and support vaccine estab-
lishments, for the purpose OF cultivating
and keeping constantly on hand, reliable
vaccine virus, and physicians vaccinating
under the provisions of this act, shall be
required TO procure virus TO be used from
such establishments, unless procured
from patients under their observation.
SEC. g. This act shall take eff-ct aud
be in force from and after July lst, 1877.
The following are the remarks Of DR..
A. B. Monahan, OF this county. when the
foregoing bill was before the House:
MR SPEAKER:-The bill under consid-
Grafton, in my opinion, is one of as much
importance as any measure that has come
before this House during this session. !
wish. Mr. Speaker, briefly to submit a few
remarks in favor of the passage Of this
bill / am fully prepared to hear oljsc-
tions TO this as well as to all measures oi
legislation that has for its Object a COM
pulsory outlook, or enforcement Of a
MEASURE contrary to the individual wish
or opinion. In this Republic of ours. it
is claimed by many. if not by most Of our
people, that we should enact no laws
which have for their object the restraint
of individual freedom OF opinion, or ac-
tion. This theory is so deeply grounded
in the minds OF our people, that the leg
islator is continually being decried on
the supposed ground Of interfering with
rights inalienable to all who live in a
country like ours, governed by the peo-
pie. and to secure the utmost freedom to
all the people.
If the subject Of temperance is brought
before legislative body. for the purpose
of restraining the evils arising from the
sale OF intoxicating drinks. the howl is
heard in all parts OF the State that the
liberty Of the people is to be tampered
with, and men are to be prohibited in the
selection Of what they shall drink, or as
TO the business in which they shall pre-
Ter to engage for livelihood. ! think
Mr.. Speaker, that there is false impres
sion gone abroad in regard to our govern
ment, like all others, is based and en-
forced on the compulsory idea. We have
tax laws, and they are compulsory; we
have statu tory laws for the collection o.
debts. aud they are compulsory; we have
laws Furnishing offenders for committing
certain acts which the law says are crimes
no matter what the opinion OF the indi
vidual may be, as to the right or wrong
and they are compulsory. The laws o.
nature, and natures God. are com
pulsory. We live under the laws Of com
pulsion, and we die by the enforcement
Of the great law Of compulsion.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, | desire after hav
ing made these preliminary remarks, tC
call special attention to the provisions o
the bill before the House The bill pre-
sents two prominent features both Of the
utmost importance to the individual and
to the community or State. The frs
proposition is that all children shall be
vaccinated. and the second proposition
is that it shall be the duty Of those wh'
perform the vaccination to obtain pur,
vaccine virus from the houses established
by law for its manufacture. ! hold. Mr.
Speaker, that the provisions of this bill
are just-that all children should be vac
cinated before they are permitted TO en-
ter our schools. and by law passed
known as tue compulsory educationa
act. all children in the State are to b
all the children shall be vaccinated.
There is an almost universal admission
among physicians in this and all othe
civilized countries, that kinepox pre-
vents or greatly modlfies smallp pox. anC
| venture the as-e ton, after twenty-five
years experience in the treatment OF dis
ease, that there is no question better set
tied by experience in medicine and il
the profession, that kine-pox, or vaccina
ton, prevents entirely in most cases. anc
greatly modified in all cases, the terrible
and loathesome disease known as small
pox. This fact is as well settled as is tn
fact that sulphate OF quinine is an anti
, periodic in the treatment of intermitten
feveTs.
Jenner, in his discovery that kinepo1
was reventive or modified small poz
so as to rob the disease OF its terrors, wa
the greatest benefactor of his or an,
other age. This disease has been a terro
to all nations, tribes, people and ages
and until the time of Jenner's discovery
was looked upon as the most loathesom,
and fatal plague that visited our race
but since the discovery of kline pox as
preventive. the physician views it as on,
Of the most comfortable diseases which
he is called upon to treat. ventur'
further to say that there never was
, case among all the millions who hav,
been successfully vaccinated with pur,
vaccine virus, if they contracted vsrioloiC
or modified smallpox. that it proved
fatal or distorted, or detormed the fea
lures. Varioloid is n mild disease, al