New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-21
A VACCINATION PARTY.
SMALLPOX AND THE MOSAIC LAW.

SMALLPOX AND THE MOSAIC LAW.
Paris December 81
A vaccination craze has come upon the heels OF
the Russian mania. The administrative STATS
OF the different Ministers have been vaccinated
at the ministries they belong to. straight from
heifer calf. The example was set at the Ministry
OF the Interior but not by VI. Raynal his
family. Last evening there grand vac
cination soiree at the house Of the widow OF
Prince Leopold Of Coburg. Invitations were Is
sued for a concert But before the musicians
began to entertain the company. the lady ot the
house announced that she rad asked her ply
sican. smallpox having broken out in the neigh
borhood. to bring supply Of lymph and lancet
70 operate on all those who might feel nervous
about the malady. Only few seemed disposed
to go forward first. But no sooner did they
show satisfaction than the others wanted to be
vaccinated. There are eighty-nine cases OF SMALL
pox in hospital and thirty-six children have been
sent home from the communal schools Of Paris
because showing symptoms Of that disease.
Not long since I had a conversation with the
venerable Sir Isaac Holden. who In spite OF his
ninety years is remarkable for the regularity OF
his attendance at night siitings at the House OF
Commons He is a man Of clear. cold judgment,
and has observed all his life the laws OF health
and the means for helping million upon million
In business enterprise. and both with equal sue
cess. Sir Isaac. after long. deep and conscen-
tious study. satisfied that Jenner did great
harm TO the human race, and that he has credit
for what hygienc improvements. more light
through the cheapenng Of window-glass and
larger stores OF body linen in the boxes OF the
poor. have effected. He would not have any OF
his grandchildren or great-grandchildren vac.
cinated According to him. the towns least WIS.,
,,rfa Lotto a
Ke!ghtly. made famous by Charlotte Bronte
They are both badly situated Keighty being in
deep narrow vale out Of the reach OF sunshine.
unless for a few hours day in summer. and
Leicester having a sluggish river running
through It, to let sewage soak into the soil The
ma iority OF the inhabitants and Of the poor law
qua rdans are anti-Jenner.sns and guardians
and private persons are constantly gong 70
prison for noncompliance with the vaccination
act Sir Isaac says that these two towns nave
driven out smallpox by such means as moses
would have approved Moses would never nave
tolerated the transfer OF pustule from peass
10 a human arm. Leprosy in Europe was
worse plague than smallpox ever has been. IL
died out with the death Of the Crusading spir1t,
and the erection Of chateaus, with large WINDOWS
such as we see along the Loire at Chambord ana
Fontainebleau. and such were built In Eng
land in the Tudor period. There Is now nothing
40 rare i'm Europe leper.
Smallpox was certainly propagated artihcaiy
first by Lady Mary Montagu. and then by the
scientific people of the last century. Noitaire
wrote II Up The British Parliament voted pre-
miums to inoculating doctors. and SO the as
ease ragged and carried off Louis XIV. HIS pody,
on being disinterred by the Revoutionists. 10
make bullets OF his leaden coffin. spread another
smallpox distemper which was one OF the plasues
OF the Reign Of Terror just hundred years ago.
Rut the disease nearly disappeared until halfway
through the sixties. when It became the FASHION
for hefer calves to be inoc hated In order TO iur
nish '.yaocine lymph" TO the doctors the SOAPS
shsd nv the heifers which We're stabbed in the
close Of Notre Dame. being thrown out into me
street in the morning to be picked up by tns
dust-carts spread smallpox all over the town.
The present epidemic was direct consequence
OF the Russian fetes. people from contaminated
provincial places rushing to Paris and iouion 10
witness the welcome given to Admrai AveHa"
and his officers. L. ~