The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-11
ON REFRIGERATION.
WHY IT is NECESSARY AND THE
VALUE IT POSSESSES.

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Vaccination Increasing.
M. Schrevens of Tourney, in q recent
report TO the Academic de Medicine de
Belgique, insists ON the government max
ing mp ito mind TO bring before the legis-
lature q law on obligatory vaccination.
He shows that in spite Of the creation by
the state Of an institute cf vaccination
the death rate OF smallpox, after having
decreased Cor q certain time, ross again
i'm 1892 through ~carelessneAs and impru-
dence. Children not vaccinated contin.
ned to be received in the SCHOOLS, he rays;
the rag trade 10 not watched In any way;
the isolation Of contagious diseases In the
hospitals 10 not enforced; while work
men, boatmen, travelling Showmen and
country letter carriers scatter the germs
of the disease right and left after being
iii by resuming their occupations prema-
turely.
It IL in vain, adds M. Schrevens, that
the Belgium government POUNDS its
hopes ON the regulations which the pro-
vincial councils are celebrating concern
ing the general organization of vaccine
ton. The law is the only radical and GER
tain measure in such questions.
have taken a good deal of trouble to
defend the idea advanced by this writer,
and in a paper addressed to the Academic
de Medicine de Paris / showed that O
law making vaccination obligatory is
impatiently awaited in France also, and
would have a very direct relation to the
national defense.
While it is to be hoped that in case Of
another war we should not again see, as
in 1870, %, 900 of our w people succumb
to smallpox, as against 500 on the German
side,. still there is in the scheme for
mobilization an important category of
soldiers placed in the auxiliary services
who, having never served before, may
not have been vaccinated. and run in
this way the risk of becoming a danger
of c~ontagion.
The more one thinks on this question
the less comprehensive becomes the hes
itancy shown to give the strength of a
law to an obligation demanded by public
opinion. / known quite well that there
are more or less earnest adversaries OF
vaccination, and that various ~antivacci-
nation leagues serve as a rallying point
to those who loudly claim the title of de.
tenders of our liberties. But liberty is a
term that must always be taken i'm o rel.
alive manner, and the liberty to do one
thing implies that something else Is for
hidden and imposes on society the duty
OF preventing one Of its members from
becoming q danger 10 the rest. What.
ever may be said or done, il IL inadmis-
sible that amy one should have the free
dom TO damage o neighbor.
The efficacy Of vaccination can ne
longer be doubted. Its value has beer
tested and consecrated by time and ex
perience, and it should be known every
where that it is by inoculating vaccins
that we protect ourselves from smallpox
and are rendered refractory to its action
/ am quite aware that the following
objection is often made, and that it il
said that it il not true that vaccination
prevents smallpox, and that cases ar
cited in which . person properly vacci
mated has taken smallpox. In spite o.
this / maintain my affirmation and shall
explain clearly, / hope, how a v~accinatet
person may take smallpox and even how
smallpox and vaccina al be seen going
through their evolution together ON tn
same person.
Take Q child who has never been vac
cinated and inoculate him in six places
three ON each arm. These viii DO fol
lowed by the appearance Of Ex 6ne pus
tules. and it ia quite possible that il
seventh and eighth inocnlation had beel
made they would have been followed b.
. seventh or eighth pustule.
What does this provei That satura
tion has possibly not been reached ant
that o certain amount of receptivity Il
the virus still remains. The immunit,
may be complete, but it may also be onl.
partial. H q man vaccinated sir seven
eight or ten years ago beinoculated witt
the same vaccine matter used for tn
child and with the same care In ID,
places, instead OF six pustules, as In th
former case, only one, two or three ma.
form. Satnration In manifest In this In
stance, and his immunity In complete.
Will another patient reyaccinated suc
cessfully three months, SIX months or
year ago, and with whom the number o
p~ustules was less than the number Of Ia
EQUATIONS made, however much care
may take i'm inoculating him again,
shall fail altogether. In this case satu
ration 10 complete and immunity agains
! smallpox absolute.
Observation has proved the Legitimate
, Of the comparison between the virus 9
. vaccine and the virus of smallpox, which
! acting as two reagents OF the same fam
ily, may replace or complete each Other
III / represent by 10 the maximum n
; oeptive power Of q person Cor smallpox
an able by inoculating vaccine 70 con
! pletely annihilate itspower by conlerrin
J an immunity Of 10. Or ! candc 90 incorr
, pletely by an immunity OF nine, eighi
seven, etc, by making an insuficien
! number Of i~noculations.
! It 10 easy to understand that Q receI
! tive power Of 10 defended BY an immun
ty Of seven, fer Instance. leaves o receI