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ON REFRIGERATION
WHY IT ls NECESSARY AND THE
 VALUE 1T POSSESSES

French Sentiment In Favor of ( Compulsory
 Vaccination Increasing.
 NJ. Schrevens of Tournay, in recent report to the Academic de Medeeine do Belgiquc, insists ont the government mall, Ing ip its mind to bring before Shd legis. llture a law on obligatory vaccination He shows that in spite of the creation by the state of an institute of vaccination the death rate of smallpox, after having decreased for q certain time, rose again in 1892 through carelessness and impru- dence. Children not yaccinated contin- ned to be received in theschools, he says, the rag trade is not watched in any way, the isolation of contagious diseases in the hospitals is not enforced while work men, boatmen, travelling showmen and country letter carriers scatter tue germs of the disease right and left after being iil by resuining their occupations prena- tnrely
 It is in vain, adds NJ SchreYeus, that the Belgium government fouads it's hopes on the regulations which the pro yineial councils are alahorating concern ing the general organization of vaccina- ton. The law is the only radical and cer. tain measure in such questions.
 have taken d good deal of trouble to defend the idea advanced by this writer, and in 8 paper addressed to the Academic dc Medicine de Paris 1 showed that C law making va6cination obligatory is impatieutly awaited iu France also, and
 would ha very direct relation to the national defense.
 While it Is to be hoped ,hat in case ot another war we should uot again see, as in 1870 2 eco of our owu people succumb i to sinaiipox, as againstbG0 on the German side, still there is in the scheme for
 mobilization an important categ1ry of soldiers placed in the anAiliary services
 who, having never served pff1rs, may not have been vaecinated and ran in
 this way the risk Of becoming 8 danger of contagion.
 The more one thinks on 5his question
 the less compreAeusible becomes tha hes itancy shown tn give the strength of law to an obligation demanded by public opinion knewn quite well that there |
 vaccination and t!Iat various autisascs nation leagiIes serve as a rallyug point to those who ioUdly claim the title of de- lenders of 5uJ liberties. Baf liberty Is term thatInust always bs taken in a rel ative manner aBi lHa Gberty Go do one thing implies tbat something else is for bidden and imposes on society the duty of preventing one of it's members from becoming 8 danger to the rest. What ey,I may be said or done. 1t is inadmis- sible that any one shguld have the free dom to damage a ueighbor
 The efficacy of vaccination can no ! longer he doubted. sts value has been i tested and consec1ated by time and ez- perieuce, and 1t should be known every
 where that it is by inoculat;ug yacciua
 that we protect ourselves from smallpox
 and are rendered rcigactory ,e its action am quite aware lhak Inc following objection is often made. ana ,Gat Il Is said that ii is not trus that vaccination prevents smallpox, and that cases are cited in which a person properly yacci- l mated has taken smallpox h spite of this maintain my affirmation and shaii explain clearly, hope how a yaccinated
 person may take smallpox and even how
 smallpox and yaccina can be seen going through their evolution together on the
 same person.
 Take 8 child who has never been vac- cinated and iuoaulate him in six places
 three on each arm. These will be fol- lowed by the a Isayauee of six fine pus-
 jules, and i is quite possible that if
 seventh and eighth inoculatiou had been
 made they would have been followed by
 & seventh ar eighth pus,ule
 What does this proyes That satura
 ton has pos. .ibly nos been reached and that a certain amount of reeeptiyity to the virus still remains fhe immunity may ba complete, but 1t may also beonly partial lta man yaccinated six, seven.
 eight or fen ycats ago be inoculated with
 the same vaccine matter used for the
 child and with the same care in six places. instead of six pustules, as in the former ease only one, two or three may
 form. Saturation is manifest in this in- stance and his immunity is complete. Witt smother patient reyaccin8ted suc- | cessfully three months, six months or a year ago, and with whom the number of pustules was less than the number of in- oculatioas made, however much care l
 may take in inoculatiug him again, I shall fail altogether. In this case satu-
 ration is complete and immunity against smallpox absolute
 | Observation has proved the legitimacy
 of the comparison between the virus of
 yaccina and thevirus of smallpox, which,
 acting as two reagents of the same fam fly, may replace or complete each other 1 If I represent by 10 the maximum re-
 ceptive power of person for smallpox, am able by inoculating vaccina 10 com | pletely annihilate itspower by conferring
 an immunity of 10, or l can do so incom-
 pletcly by an immunity of nine, eight, seven, etc., by making an insufficient
 number of iRoculations.
 It is easy to understand that a recep.
 tive power of 10 defended by ali immuni- l ty of seven, for instance. leaves 0 recep-
 tive power of three for smallpox. This
 is how smallpox may break out on a vac- ! cinated person, and this is alsowhy small l pox and vaccina may go through their
 evolution together, but in such cases the
 smallpox will be always light and mild,
 The question of quantity must there i fore be taken into account in conferring
 immunity against smallpox, especially as l this immunity esseus with time in areg-
 ularly progressive manner.
 The conclusion is that vaccina is the preservative against smallpox, but since
 the immunity conferred may only be
 partial and decrease with time it is we'll
 to be revaccinated periodically every six
 CT eight years, and again, as matter Of