The Lake Charles echo., 1894-04-20
ON REYACCINAIION.
why lT is NECESSARY AND THE
VALUE IT POSSESSES


naiy E.imitea Immunity Frana smailnoz.
Fse6ah seaslusus IN Favor ur compulsory
Vaccination Increasing.
MI sehrevena Of Tourney IA d recent
report to the Academic 90 Medicine de
Belgilne, insists on thegovernment maxi
ing up Its mind to bring before the legis-
latureaa law on obligatory vaccination.
He shows that III spite of the creation By
the state Of am institute of vaccination
the death rate Of smallpox, after having
decreased for certain tiu1e, rose again
in 1909 through cafelessness and lmpru-
,lence Children not vaecinated contin-
ued to be received in the schools, be says;
the rag trade Is not watched ia amy wayi
the isolation d contagious diseases ia the
hospitals Ii not enforced; while work.
men, boatnen, travelling showinen and
country letter carriers scatter the germs
Of the disease right and left after being
i'll by resnming their occupations prenla-
tnrely,
II Is in vain, adds M. schreyens, that
the Belgium government founds its
hopes on the regulations which the pro-
vineial councils are celebrating concern
ing the general organization Of vaeeina-
tion. The law Ii 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 paper addressed to the Academic
de Medicine dc Paris l showed that a
law making Vaccination obligatory ii
impatiently awaited in France also, and
would have very direct relation 10 the
national defense,
While it Is to be hoped that in case of
another war we should not again see, as
in 1870, u, goo Of our own people sucouInb
to smallpox, as against 600 on the German
side, still there Is In the seheme for
mobilization an important category of
soldiers placed in the auxiliary services
who, having never served before, may
not have been yaccinated, and run in
this way the risk Of beeoming q danger
Of eontagion,
The more Que thinks ON this question
tho less comprehensive becomes the hes
itancy shown to give the strength of q
law TO an obligation demanded BY public
opinion. known quite well that there
are more or less earnest Adyersaries Of
| vaccination, and that various antivacei-
nation leagues serve as a rallying point
to thosewho loudly claim the title of de-
| fenders of our liberties, But liberty to q
| term that must always be taken in o rel
ativo 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 danger to the rest What
ever may be said or done, 1t is inadmis-
sibIe that any one should have the FREQ
dom to damage O neighbor.
Tho efficacy Of vaccination can no
longer be doubted. Its value has been
tested and ronseorated by time and ex-
perience, and it should be known every
where that II is by inoeulatiug vacoina
that VIC protect ourselves from smallpox
and are rendered refractory to its action,
| am quite aware that the following
objection Is often made, and that It ID
| said that 1t Is not true that vaccination
prevents smallpox, and that cases are
cited In which Q person properly vacei-
mated has taken smallpox. In spite Of
bulh ulutAphlh any pilAi i4luAAhtA MAA sAAAtA
explain clearly, ! hope, how yaccinated
person may take smallpox and even how
smallpox and yacGina can be seen going
through their evolution together on the
| same person.
Take child who has never been vac
cinated and inoculate him in six places
three on each arm. These will be fol-
lowed by the appearance Of six fine pus-
tules, and ID ID quite possible that If q
seventh and eighth incubation had been
made they would have been followed by
a seventh or eighth pustule,
What does this proye3 That satura-
tion has possibly not been reached and
that certain amount Of receptivity to
the virus still remains. The immunity
may bo complete, but II may also be only
! partial, If man YaeGinated six, seven,
eight or ten years ago he inoGulated with
the same vaccine matter used for the
child and with the same care in six
places, instead Of six pustules, as In tho
former case, only one, two Or three may
form. Saturation Is manifest IN this In
stance, and his Immunity Is complete,
/ With another patient raYaccinated sue
cessfully three ll0ntha six months or d
wear ago, and with whom the number Of
pustules was less than the number Of in
oculations made, however much care |
may take In inonnlating him again, |
shall fail altogether, lii this case satu-
ration is complete aud immunity against
smallpox absolute.
| Observation has proved the legitimacy
of the comparison between the virus of
yaccinaand the virus of smallpox, which,
acting as two reagents Of the same fans
Il lily, may replace or complete each other,
IL represent by 10 the maximnm re-
reptiye power Of q person for smallpox,
am able by inoenlating yaceinR tp COM
pletely annihilate itspower by comforting
mi immunity Ut 10, or can 40 so incom-
pletely BY an immunity eE nine, eight
seyen etc, by making an insuiieiant
number Of inpeulations,
II Ii easy TO understand that recep
two power 81 10 defended by an iInmuni
ty III seven, for instance, leaves d reeeiF
tive power 0f three for slnallpox IhiA
Il how smallpox may break olit % Vae.
! einated person, aud this Is also why snallt
/ p0x apd adeina may 30 through tilali
, evolution fagether, aist n such easas ths
ainallIl will ps always lsgAt aild MID.
1iis question of quantity nltlst tnefa'
! tore III taken inta account IN eanaefFi4lE
iminanitY against slllallHp especially q
thia inmanisY sessens HFieh tllne IL area'
sllagly pTosgessF gaanHar.
Tie oaRelasion Il Eha4 Yaenlua q sAa
pfesergafiYa a4 gisb ssnalip0x hat SiHaa