The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-07
rAvons VACCINATION.


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Tho Only Way to Toll II 1t Protects
Is Ise-ranCInatlsn.
70 n, Editor Of The in,cltGnrtr.
SIR:-I understand that patrons OF
tho Fourth ward school aro demanding
that tho school DO closed at oncc. Why7
Because tho city council has failed TO
require oil In tho city who are unpro.
toc!cd from ANAL pox, TO DO v%accinate6.
Tho following extract from n report to
the governor, November s, 1870. by Dr..
John 9. liupp, then state vaccine agent,
sooins appropriate on this occasion:
Vaccination Is n preventive OF small.
box and In nll cases perfectly harmless.
Those facts, gained by experience and
observation aud overwhelmingly sub.
ntantiated by tho highes. hygicnic au.
thotitiOs. have been patent 10 tho civil
lied world during moro than tliToO-
quarters OF q century. Where within
tho whole rauge Of human experience
was over an epidemic Of smallpox, how
over sovero, that vaccination did not
promptly and oficclually arrest. when
II wal universally md efficiently mp.
piled to the class or communlty exposed
10 tho contagion2 1t Is doomOd unnOc.
essary to mention examples conlirma'
tory OF tho pronptnoss and efficiency
with which vaccination arrests tho
spread Of smallpox, when tho fact Is so
overwhelmingly substantia,od by uni.
vcrsnl observation and experience.
lilo nee 10 dcdnced INCIDENTALLY tho con.
clusicu that smallpox only exists among
us in consequence Of tho neglect to ap'
ply tho preventive.
exemption from sovoro smallpox
epidemics In tho American and Euro.
pean armies, Is tho result, directly, OF
compulsory vaccination. II is Baidthat
Prussia and Austria have not been
scoursed with an opidOmic Of smallpox,
OF any severity, Tor tho last fifty years.
Why? Because thosu governments re-
quiro tho e~ticiont application OF tho
vaccine prophylactic to every person
within their respective territories.
every state aud Cvery city can do
tho same. TO any person about to DO
exposed to tho c%ontacion OF smallpox,
wc would recommend aud urge the
propric.y and necessity Of
RE-vAcCISATIoS,
for this is tho only reliable evidence
wo can have that complete vaccine pro-
lection hns been obtained. To obtain
this evidence ro-vaCcination Is nGces-
sasy. Re~-yaccination solves tho query
-romoycS the douE in any given case,
and decides tho question whether tho
vaccination is complete, incomplete or
there is non-protcction."
No person doubts tho existence OF
varioloid. The fact that vnrioloid does
exist is positive proof Of the protective
! power OF vaccination. Partial protoc-
ton yields varioloid, total unprotoceion
yields small pox in persons exposed 10
variolous contngion.
II VIC possesaod no means OF protec.
ton, varioloid could not exist, but var
lola would exist with undisturbcd do
minion over the health and lives OF the
people, and would constantly multiply.
As 1t would increase, our population
would decrease.
The fact that ~vaccinotion may, in Ger.
tain instances. protect only partially,
or for a limited time, or torsooth wear
out. is no evidence against its protec-
tive power.
As clothing covers n1koduess and
more clothing compeasates for insult
cient covering OF tho body, so il tho
protective power OF vaccination and 70.
vaccination to the unprotected and par
tally protected from smallpox.
All things of tho earth a.e perish able.
Some things. from tho wear aud tear
OF time. require repair or renewal
sooner than others. But because all
earthly entities do wear out, we cannot
from this conclude that they did not
previously exist, nor that they should
not be repaired or removed. Likewise,
il it is suspected to be Incomplete or
worn out, the remedy is rc-yaccination.
Therefore, when 4 v~accinator is called
upon to decide whether d family is or is
not protected. instead OF trusting in
abstrusc .heorieI or speculative conjec-
lures, let him rather be practical and
ro-vacciuate; and then he cau feel as
confident Of their safety from an attack
OF smallpox, rs he can OF anything in
the future.
WELDING, June 6.