The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-03-19

and as stated elsewhere, from any unknown
source. At Lupara, Italy, Il number OF
children were vaccinated with lymph in
tubes which came from Campo Basso.
Twenty-Five children were vaccinated with
this matter. These children were born OF
healthy parents. The VAGINAL peck was
followed by characteristic venereal ulcera-
tions . $ The mothers, most of whom
sucked their infants, contracted syph-
ills from them. From mothers to
fathers, it extended to other members
of the family and community"
Before this inoculated disease was stamp
ed out, there were about 800 cases, and IS
victims.
From the above we learn, what terrible
results have been produced by improper
vaccination. Our community has no doubt
i suffered terribly on this account. There
should be no experiments in vaccination,
and our health authorities should COM
municate with the health authorities of
enlightened nations, who lave devoted so
much attention to the vital matter of a
true animal vaccine lymph.
WHEN smallpox epidemic afflicted this
Kingdom in 1853, the Government at that
time in correspondence with the Govern
ment of Great Britain OH the subject of the
epidemic received a valuable donation
of vaccine lymph from the General
Board of Health of London Lord Wode-
house in a note dated Nov. 18th, 1858, adj
dressed to Gen. Miller, British Commits
sioner in Honolulu, says 81 am now
directed by Lord Clarend on (Foreign Sec
retary) to send you herewith a packet con-
I foininn uaOcina lunonh xBh;o1 kho Door1
of Health has supplied in compliance with
His Lordship's requisition, and I also en-
close a copy of the letter from that Board
accompanying the vaccine matter, giving
| some directions for its use. His Lordship
desires that you will present this vaccine
lymph to the authorities in the Sandwich
| Islands, in the name of Her Majesty's Gov
ernment." This was accompanied by the
following letter from the Secretary of the
London Board of Health.
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH,
WHITEHALL, Nov. Is, 1858.
My LoRD:-I am directed by the General
! Board of Health to acknowledge the receipt of
YOUR letter of the 18th inst, transmitting. bv
direction of the Earl of Clarendon, an extract
from a dispatch addressed to his Lordship by
Her Majesty's Consul General in the Sandwich
Islands, and requesting to be furnished with a
supply of Vaccine Matter, for the purpose of
being forwarded by the first opportunity to those
Islands,
In reply 1 AN to inform you that the Board
have obtained a supply of vaccine lymph, from
the National Vaccine Establishment, which L
have the honor herewith to forward to your
LOrdShip, and / am to state that in the trans
mission of the accompanying packet, it is of the
utmost consequence that it should be protected
from heat and moisture, as a combination of
these will render the matter utterly worthless.
1t is therefore that it should be
nlacadi in the pT1Vata UTitiO0-daCE of on Oficor
going to the Islands. If it be unavoidably sent
by post it should be enclosed in a zinc box, as
affording the best chance of arriving uniniured.
The lymph is forwarded in three different
ways, and directions are enclosed. There is
sufficient in the hands of skilful operators to lay
the foundation for successfully vaccinating a
whole nation in a very short space of time.
The first set operated upon must be children,
as a matter efficient for other persons is not
capable of being Reproduced in adults. One
child successfully vaccinated, Will supply lymph
for 200 other persons. In the process of vac
cintaing from the patient, however, it is i'm
portant in order to avoid alarm to both mother
and child, that they should be in a room
separated from the crowd waiting to be
operated upon, who shall be introduced one by
one.
1t is not desirable that the packet should be
opened before it reaches the operator.
| have, &c,
(Signed) c. MACAULEY, Sec'y.
The Rt. Hon. Lord WooDHoUsE, &c, &c, &c.
AOLSlSA OIlCG
The receipt of the lymph, was acknow-
lodged, as shown in the following letter,
by Prince Liholiho, who afterwards became
King Kamehameha ".
OFFICE OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS
OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
HONOLULU, FEB. 18th, 1854.
SIR| have the honor to acknowledge your
communication of yesterdays date, containing
copy of the despatch, No. 229, of H. B. Ms
Consul General, copy of Lord Wodeh ouse's des-
patch, No. z, to ii. b. Ms Consul General, and
copy of the letter of the Secretary of the Board
OF Health to Lord Wodehouse, bearing date 10Th
November, 1853.
The prompt interest shown by Her Britannia
Majesty's Government, in the sufferings of the
people of this Archipelago, under the visitation
OF the small pox, is another proof of the
humanity and sympathy, that that Government
has always mantle sted towards the Hawaiian
Nation. As a member of the Health Commits
sion, L can assure you that the Vaccine Lymph
could not have arrived more OPPORTUNITY; for,
although a supply had been previously received
by the propagation of which, we trust that all,
or nearly all, of the native race are now pro-
tected 1T will greatly facilitate the execution of
a Law which the Commissioners intend to recon-
mend to the Legislature at its approaching ses-
SION, Tor compulsory vaccination, founded, so
lar as It's rOvlSlOnS are deemed applicable to the