Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31
The Free Vaccination

How the Pure Virus is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ty of General Vaccination.
DIR. G. A. Lindsey, the health officer OF
the city, has issued, the following circular
which gives valuable information to all inter
ested in the matter of vaccination.
To the Public
The Board of Health has provided the
means and the opportunity during the pres
emit week for vaccinating at the public cost
all persons in the city of New Haven in need
of It.
Vaccination is the only safeguard known tc
man against the contagion of smallpox.
Vaccination in infancy and revaccinatior
in adult life afford absolute and complete
than SO per cent of all who have to submit
to it. It is therefore as nearly perfect as any
human precautions ever are.
Vaccination is absolutely safe when per
formed upon healthy subjects at most il
only causes the temporary inconvenience OF
sore arm, and the slight indisposition II
the vaccine disease.
Three things are essential to the enjoyment
of these priceless advantages
LIST. Perfectly pure vaccine virus, uncon
taminated with any hurtful element
Cd Such skill and knowledge on the par
of the vaccinator as will insure an eficien
application of the virus and will enable hin
| to judge of the present fitness of the subject
for operation.
3D. Compe emit observations of the results
of the operation to know if it is or is not
successful vaccination.
The Board of Health fully alive to the i'm
portance and responsibility of this nndertak
1 ing has spared no efforts to obtain for the
public service all the above essentials for the
reliable, safe and successful vaccination Of
those who need it.
The physicians employed are well known
| residents and practitioners of experience
The locations selected are conveniently dis
tributed throughout the city. The time ii
sufficient, and if not will be prolonged. The
health officer has visited the stables and per
sonally observed the process of propagatine
the virus, and the method of collecting il
from the matured vesicles He has seen ano
examined the animals from which the supply
of virus is to be obtained. They are young
healthy heifers from six months to veal
old. They are already inoculated, and the
maturing vesicles will during the week afford
an ample supply of fresh and pure lymph fol
use the day after it is collected.
The methods of propagating and preparing
the lymph for use are the results of long
experience, and are SO unexceptionable thai
it is scarcely possible that the virus should bt
other than pure and good.
The virus will be obtained from the stables
of DIR. Henry A. Martin of Boston High
lands. who is without question the most dis
tinguished and best authority on vaccination
in America.
He was the first, as he is the only, import
er of bovine virus to this country. In 1876
he imported some of the famous BeaugencJ
stock of virus from France, and it is from
that importation that all the bovine virus il
| this country has been produced
The superiority of the various products OF
bovine virus in the market depends wholly
unOn the 6ynAriarco fha knnxvla1oa SRil1
care and honesty of those engaged in its pro
| duction. In these regards DIR. Martin ex
GELS, and the writer feels perfect confidence
that the virus obtained from the above
source is the purest and best to be found
The prejudices which exist in every com
| munity against vaccination because of occa
sional unfortunate results, mostly due tt
avoidable causes, would seem to justify tbs
above statement to restore, if possible, con
tidence in the public mind in this means Of
preserving the public health.
G. A. LINDSEY, M. D., Health Officer.