The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-25
The small Pox.
CHEYENNE, WYo.,
Jan. oath. 1892.

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Editor Cheyenne Leader:
Inssmuch as smallpox has become
epidemic throughout the states a word
or two may not be inadmissable rela-
tive to vaccination. It Is the opinion
of the most learned medical men of to-
day that small pox be eradicated
from any community by a proper and
peIsistant system Of vaccination. From
the year 1873, when Jenner announced
to the world his great discovery, to the
present time, facts have been constantly
accommodating for the calculation of the
most universally accepted truth ever
demonstrated by the science of medi-
cine and that Is that vaccination wher
properly performed is a certain and per-
feet protection against small pox. In
1927 there was an epidemic Of smallpox
which was very malignant in Phila-
delphia, and but one well authenticated
death from among $4,000 persons that
were ~vaccinated came to the knowledge
Of u committee of Investigation. From
1901 to 1922 in Holstein 134, S59 persons
were subjected to vaccination, and dar-
ing all this period aud for two years sub.
sequently onlytwo cases of small pox oc-
CURED.
In the kingdom Of Denmark during
the same period only one individual
among 4 1900 vaccinated were
attacked by modified variola, thus
showing that in u population of 692, 564,
with the exception of three cases the
disease was entirely exterminated for a
space Of t~wenty-three years.
Previous to the use Of vaccination
there died annually of smallpox, out of
every million In West Philadelphia dur
ing the years 1776, 80, 5,643, and during
thirty five years 1860 latter vsccina-
tion was adoptedj the annual death rate
from the same disease was only ia.
In Copenhagen the death rate from
small pox was 3,12s annually for every
million for many years, and after rae
cination it was only 296. In Berlin for
s"oheJh'o JcoiS previous W Iho RoIo-
raj use of vaccination the annual death
rate by smallpox was 3,422, and for 40
years subsequently it has been only 876.
In Sweden for twenty. eight years pre-
ceding the use Of vaccination out of
every million of the population, there
died from small pox annually 1850, and
for forty years after the use of yaccina-
ton the annual death rate by small pox
was only 1853 of every million. Thus it
is seen that out of %, 200, 900 people
there died annually of small pox previ-
GUS to vaccination 80, 961, and from the
same number of people there have died
annually since vaccination was adopted
ouly 7,403, thus saving annually the
livrs of 55,465 persons, besides the re-
lief from physical suffering which those
who are afflicted with this terrible
scourge must necessarily endure.
For twenty years previous to 1862 the
Prussian army presented an almost en-
tirely reyaccinated population; one
hundred and four annual deaths by
small pox has been the average for the
r~evaccinated army. Since 1S43 revac-
cination has been compulsory in the
Bavarian army, and from that up to the
date of the last report (1S57) not a single
death by small pox nor even a single
case of unmodi6ed small pox has &C.
CURED in that population.
In conclusion 1 believe l have cited
you statistics sufficient to convince
every intelligent mind of the efficacy of
vaccination. In my opinion, l believe
every person ought to be vaccinated as
often as every i've years. If such a
course Of vaccination as that was made
obligatory, I am confident that small
pox could be stamped out entirely.
Very truly yours,
E. B. GRAHAM, NJ. D.