The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-03-04
ToRruEsp BY VACCINE VIRUS.
Frances AstOB's Life for SIX h"a's
was Continuous Agony ana Deh'"
was Welcome 90 Her

New York Weekly Herald, Jah' Zo'l
In the cosey little parlor of the old
fashioned frame house No. PA Eek
ford street, GreenpOint, Saturday
night lay an icebox covered Win
simple white pail. Within reposed
the wasted body of a young girl
whose pinched face and spare arms
indicated the terrible sickness through
which she had passed. Her father
and the other members of the family
fyantically bemoaned their loss and
implored the few neighbors who came
to sympathize with them in their be-
reavement not to allow their children
to be vaccinated.
1t was vaccination that not only
caused Frances Aston's death, but
caused her six years of indescribablc
pain. The vaccine, which was used
with the greatest care by the family
physician, DIR. c, A. Walters, of No.
Ill Milton street, Greenpoint, devel-
oped disease that baffled the skill
of not less an authority than DR..
Janeway, of Bellevue Hospital, and
score of other famous medical mer
who came to view and study the case.
Additional interest comes from the
fact that the family has from time
immemorial been opposed to the prac-
tice of vaccination, and only per-
mitted it on their daughter because
they were anxious to keep her at
school and the authorities had issued
an order compelling all pupils to be
vaccinated.
PAIN AND PARALYSIS.
The dead girls father is William
Aston, tool-maker, and one of the
most esteemed residents of Green
point. DR.. Walters, he told me last
night, vaccinated Frances and her
sister Edna in December, 1885.
They returned to school and five days
later Frances complained of pain in
her left side. The pain grew worse
and two days later she became para
lyzed. She was unable to move her
limbs without suffering torture, and
whenever she was touched she
screamed with pain. DR.. Walters
was puzzled and called in other ply
sicians for consultation. An abscess
formed just over the girls left knee,
and the pain became SO intense that
she was unable to lie in bed or stand
erect.
For more than four months she
suffered thus, and then her parents
decided upon taking her to Bellevue
Hospital. While in that institution
she was under the almost constant
care of DR.. Janeway. Her condition
excited the greatest interest among
the students, yet her disease could
not be diagnosed. The abscession her
knee dried up and another formed on
her left side, just below the heart.
The pain became worse than before,
and the shrieks Of the girl continued
sometimes for hours.
After being in Bellevue three
months her parents took her home.
She seemed to improve soon after,
although the muscles of her limbs
contracted and she became cripple.
She pleaded so hard to be allowed to
go to school that her parents con-
sented and provided her with crutches.
When she left school after two sea-
sons the abscess in her side began to
swell, and eruptions on the surface
of the body aggravated the girls
pain.
DEFIED NARCOTICS.
Every effort was made by the ply
sicians to relieve her sufferings, but
without avail. No amount of mar
cotics would ease her torment. Her
screams would som etimes be heard a
block away from her home. From
August, 1889, she was helpless
cripple.
A week ago her limbs became rigid
and she felt her end was near. To
her mother, three days ago, the I'M
fortunate girl said Mamma,
feel that | will soon be relieved of
nay agony She died late on Fri
day night.
DIR. Walters, who is opposed to
vaccination, has furnished Mr.. Aston
with statement that on the day that
he vaccinated Frances and her sister
he vaccinated ten other children,
upon some of which the vaccine virus
produced serious results. DR.. Wal
tiers attributes Frances illness and
snfferings to the vaccine. He also