The evening world., 1894-04-28
NOT IMPURE LYMPH.
Commissioner Wyckoff's Reply to
Vaccination Opponents.
Autopsy Will Disclose the Cause Of
Young Smiths Death.
DR.. Costales Insists that Impure Vi
rus Was Used.

In the absence Of Health Commissioner
Emery, who is confined to his home with
sickness, Deputy-Commissioner Wyckof,
OF Brooklyn, to-day rave out a statement
rcfuting the charges that impure vaccine
has been used by the department in con-
Quoting its vaccinating raids.
The statement was issued by DR.. Wyck-
off In reply to the allegations made last
night at a meeting Of the Anti-Compul-
sorry Vaccination League, held at 55 Full
ton street. The obje It of the society Is
to do away with the laws which permit
the Health Department to make whole
sale vaccinations of citizens.
At a second meeting a committee was
appointed to inquire nto the death Of
Charles w. Smith. eleven vars old. OF 70
Woodbine street. The attending physician
filed a certificate setting forth hat the
boys death was due to his having been
v~accinated. The Health Department
F, claims that the boy died OF Bright's dis
ease.
The Committee reported last night
that death was due to blood poisoning,
following the use of impure vaccine.
Chairman Hitchcock, in peaking to the
report, said:
an III poSStSSlOH VI pOSltlNc plool
that Health Commissioner Emory re-
called the Smith burial certificate which
he had issued and summoned DIR. Cos
tales. who attended the boy, and COM
OF death to Bright's disease and dropsy.
Under %compulsion that physician made
a false certificate. What authority the
Health Commissioner had to compel DR..
Costdles to alter the certificate the Com
missioner will soon be called upon to
explain"
said that the Commissioner had re-
quested him to alter the death certif-
cate. He had refused. He WAS able to
prove, he said, that impure vaccine mad
been used.
DR.. Wyckoff refused to talk about the
Smith case until the doctors. who are
investigating the matter, hand In their
report. In regard to the charges that
impure lymph WASH sed, Mr.. Wyckoff
says in his statement:
The important question OF the quality
of the vaccine lymph, used In the pub
the subject of constant thought by Mr..
Emory. With the exception of a few
thousand points, all the lymph used has
been the product of one farm; in an es'
tabl!shment having a National reputa.
ton for the completeness Of Its plant
and the eXcesllence of its bovine vac
cine; There probably Is no larger es.
whose reputation Is more. firmly estab
lished for cleanliness and attention t
every other important detail.
This lymph used in our public vaccina
lions is the same kind taht the Commits
sioner, as well as others of his medica
staff, has been in the habit of using II
private practice and in their W fam
lies. 1t is this lymph that they employ
when, having been exposed to smallpox
they vaccinate themselves. The purit!
of the lymph Is believed by DR.. Emery
to be practically guaranteed.
18th lymph used by this Department Y
the same that a large number Of the old
est and most reputable physicians OF thu
city, Of New ork. Chicago and other larg'
cities are using, and have been using TO
a long time. This lymph Is now bein:
ordered by the Chicago Board OF Health
in quantities even greater than haV'
been required here when our large fore
Of v~accinators was at work.
1T may be adde that about nine out o
ten drug stores in the city sell thi
lymph"
completed. Prof. Wilson, the bacteriolog
teal expert OF the Health Department
and Dr.. Frank Freel, Coroner Creamer'
autopsy physician. will present their re
ports Monday.
Two cases of smallpox were reporte'
to-day. Conrad Snyder, twenty-three, o
2 30l Maujer street. and Amelia Conrad
six, OF l42 Johnson avenue, were remove
to the hospital.