The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-02
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STATE BOARD ga sdE
The chief object OF IA
ration 40 InA~eTce
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III. HHeaiuh and HEy Siene


..;.,.l tho ,li.ease smallpox and is proven
,i,a vaccination. as : somewhat iani'ilar
o>,,,,n,c of what might be accomplished uy
,..-,i,,r;a,, LEGISLATION, and sugges'e that
the continued existence of that ihVrnSe
,,,,.,,iors disease i'm civilized countries i
NOT dine 70 our ignorance of the IN ans Vi
preventing it, but because We nave "o'
practical force and effect To kho"'e"S1
ready acquired on the subject IL 50 nap
mems that am II NV able 10 demohslF'le L''
proposition with positive proof.
In Ireland vaccination was maze com P"i
sorv IN 1868. Since that period the fooI Ia"
commissioners have carried out tue Pr
visions of the law and the whole population
has been vaccInated- The results are see"
in the following figures, from which lINaP
nears that the Irish physicians have pan
ished smallpox from their Island Is eliec'
ally as ST. Patrick is said to have oah'sheu
tta snakes. Whereas, in the decade eX-
tending from 1881 u 1919 the amman
average mortality from the Disease was
500; from 1910 to 1859, 1921; from 1917 10
1860. ar; i the year 1851 the morsalH!
was S54: in 1868, 81 in 1866, lSI; III 1901
%: in 1868, 10. In the first half OF $500 Tue
whole number of deaths from smatl-poN
was three, The deaths from smallpox In
Ireland since 1856, have b zen 50 few that it
i fair to suppose the cases have been gen
erally imported from abroad. Ii SIN l!l-poN
can be bani,hed from Ireland, can 1t not be
FINISHED from the civilized world? In Ire
land. the physicians had the British PArlia-
ment to back them, and To enforce, by APP
nroDriat. legislation the discovery of Jen
| ner in Xperimenting tine disease; ani u l.
| reasonable 70 suppose that the people Of the
Emerald Isle could thank all nations having
| commercial intercourse with them, the
| United States especially, to make their i'm
munity still more perfect by following tn"
example of the English lawmakers
Mr. Simon, one of the great English au-
thoritcs on this subject, says: ''lt Is the
neglect of vaccination that renders the oc-
| .urrence of considerable epiIemics of SIN all
box possible and it is by vaccination thai
| the spread of smlll-po can most etfectually
she prevented or restrained" BY vIccina-
ton in infancy, if thoroughly well per-
formed and successful, most people are
| completely insured for their whole life
time against an attack OF smallpox; aud
| i'm the prop)rtionaly few cases where the
| protection is less complete, smallpox if it
| be caught, will, in consequence OF the vac
ciuation, generally be so mild Il disease az
| not to threaten death or Disagreement. II,
however, the Vaccin alton in early II C has
been but i'm perfectly performed, or has
from any other cause been bat perfectly
successful, the protection against small
| poX il much less satisfactory; neither last
| inc so long nor while it lasts being nearly
| so com plete, as the pro ectiOn which first
| rate vaccination gives. Hitherto, unfOrtu
| nately there has always been Il very large
quantity of imperfect vaccination; and in
consequence the population always
contains very >, many persons who.
though nominaly vaccin4ted and be-
lieving them selves to be protected
against smallpox, are really liable to in
lection, and may in some cases contract as
severe forms of small -poX as il they had
never been vaccinated. Partly bccause Of
the existence of this large number OF i'm
| perfectly vdccinnated persons, and partly
because also. even the best intantine vacci-
nation som etimes in process OF time loses
| more or less of its effect, it is advisable that
| all persons icLO haze been Udccindted IN infancy
| should as Mey approach adult Ire unIergJ re
Uacctn1ti0n. In circumstances OF special
| danger. everyone past childhood, on whom
re-vacciuation has not before been success
fully performed, ought without delay to be
| re- yaccinated. Re-VaccinatiOn once prop
erly and successfully performed does not
appear ever to require repetition. The nur-
ses and other servants of the LONDON small
| are invariably submitted to vaccination,
which in their case generally is revaccina-
ton, and is never after Yards repeated; and
| so perfect is the protection, that, though
the nurses live in the closest and most con
| slant attendance on smallpox patients, and
| though also the other servants arc III vari-
| Gus ways exposed u special chances of in
lection, the resilient Surgeon of the h0spi-
| tai, during his MiHy-fOW years Of office there
f has neUer kHotcR smdH-p0r Ctec, day one Of
| these nurses or SeTUdlltS
| 1t woald seem that those facts ought to
| be conclusive. Similar results be OBJ
tanned elsewhere; but it has not been done
in this country. MAvhap we mast wait for
| a higher civiliZationl | do not charge that
| The fault is altogether win the law-m tl,ers
Dogberry said that writing and rn-
came by nature but he nev-r said thai
aoo.'t law ~ aN'n@' Legislators do not
s"'" h"o .ke by intuition. Like ordi-
1 larry mortalS they require to be instructed
in all matters of human knowledge The
receiving of ma ority of The votes at a
county election does not invariably make
sudden Solomons out of Thorn. Nor do they
make any prctensi0ns of that sort On the
cOntrary,a worthy representative of tile peo-
| pie Is always willing to be Taught i'm All those
matters which affect the public veal and
the more profound his ignorance the great
er is his desire for information on subjects
pertaining to health and hygiene It is the
custom in this country to refer all questions
of sickness to the women and the doctors
The wife and mother generally chooses the
family physician, while the husband and
father, the lordly politician, stalks off TO
the legislature full of patriotic determine
ton TO "retrcnch and REFORM" But the
doctors are TO- hla1e. after all, for the short
comings in sanitary legi Station Asa class
they are modest men; and they seem con-
tented, it not absolutely pleased with the
custom which bundles them off with The
women and children. When the people
commit the blunder of sending one of them
/ 70 ha I atyisl AftIra Har
In the north-eas: corner of the hall, where
he sits through the sessian dumb as am oys-
ter, especially ca subjects connected with
his profession.
1t is quite probable that at an early day.
perhaps at the next sessisn of the Legisla-
lure. the question of compulsory vaccina-
ton will be brought before that body for
action. Whether legislation as extreme as
that shall prevail or not, certainly, the peo-
pie ought TO have tho means of easily pro-
curing nu4e and reliable virus, and not bs
exposed to the danger of receiving scrofu-
lous or synthetic faint from matter or scabs
that have travelled Tor years through promis-
cuous arms. For this purpose the Secretary
of the State Board of Health should be the
chief of a vaccine bureau of the State, and
should be required, at all times, to keep on
hand supply of fresh and approved bovine
virus. for distribution throughout the State
But DIR. f. w. Hughes, of Grenada, a phv-
| stefan, distinguished alike for his nriVake
worth, and his professional attachments, a
mem Der of the State hoard of Health, has
charge ot the subject of vaccination, and ia
his forthcoming report, will fully advise the
| authorities as to what should be done.
| SANITARIAN.
Hayes is the first American President
who owed his place TO fraud Tilden the
FIRST American President who was de-
prived of his place by fraud.-St, Louis
| Republican.