Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30
,s,t is the Sum and Substance Of
Compulsory Vaccination
FoRBIDS PERFECT HEALTH
Law is an Unendurabic usur-
patton aud Creates the Right
Of Resistance

p.yliament has no right to assault
whatever under pretenee Of the public
health. nor any the more against the
hody OF healthy ilfant. To forbid
,.rfact health is tyranncal wlckedness,
r., as much as 10 forbid chastity or
yasr,etv No lawgiver can have the
sIebt The law Is an unenduraDle
usurpation, and creates the right OF
resistance" Emeritus Prof. Il. W.
Newman. ~. ,,u,
that apply with equal force TO Con-
press. state legislatures and health
soards. but our State health board does
NOT seem aware Of that fact It's re-
cent actions reminds one very forcibly
~ the park Ages with its charms, in
cantatlons and witchcraft. When a
disease like the smallpox comes among
vs the most rational thing the health
hoard could do would be 70 send out
Instructions to the people regarding the
hygienic and sanitary conditions they
should observe, instead OF doing that.
and thus removing the cause and con-
dltions that feed the disease, they are
irving 10 enforce compulsory Vaccina-
lion and thus charm away the dis
ease.
Let us hear from some Of the best
authorities what should be done TO
prevent the spreading OF smallpox and
kindred diseases,
BENJAMIN Ward Richardson, NJ. D.,
Ii. D., +. II. S.. in the Field OF Dis
ease, a book Of preventive medicine
pages e73 and 6SS, says. AT first sight
il would appear to be an incredible task
10 suppress the great class of diseases
which come under the head Of dis
eases of zymotic origin, and yet ii Is
true that these diseases are Of all those
OF natural origin, the most distinctly
preye ntable. For this reason they are
sometimes called the preventable af-
iections.
I'm this day we have got over that
disaster so far. that II throughout our
towns we had proper hospital accom-
mOdations for the reception OF all
smallpox cases so soon as they occur
and means for the complete destruc-
ton Of the virus which each case re-
produces in such abundance, we could
soon stamp out smallpox altogether by
ordinary sanitary measures without
vaccination"
George II. Robe, NJ D., in Text Book
Of Hygiene, A Comprehensive Treatise
on the Principles and Practice of Pre-
ventive Medicine from an American
Standpoint" a book published In 1890
and used in many medical colleges,
gays: THE contagious and infectious
diseases are OF particular interest TO
sanitarians, because 1t is believed that
BY judicious carrying out Of sanitary
measures they can be prevented. Hence
they are sometimes termed preventable
diseases" Page 2S9.
There Is however, one point upon
witch ne-fly all writers who mention
the fact at all agree. This Is that bad
hygienic conditions are always present
where plague prevails. Nearly all OBJ
servers who have left their impressions
on record mention the accumulation OF
filth In the houses and streets deficient
removal Of excrementitions, and other
sewage matters, crowding and imper-
feet ventilation OF dwellings as causes
fayoring the development and spread
OF the pestilence.
"All point out the necessity OF the re-
moval OF these evils as the most I'M
portant prophylactic measures to be
adopted. and all Of them call attention
10 the fact that those classes OF the
population most exposed TO these I'M
favorable influences suffer most from
the violence Of the epidemic"
Robes Hygiene, page 296.
Plague is a near kin TO smallpox
hence the means OF prevention should
be much the same. We will give here
the personal experience of leading
authority regarding the smallpox cpl
demic in Montreal in 1885. DR.. A. Nj.
Ross, NJ. D., NJ A., +. II. s. l.. Eng,
says: I'm March 1885, my attention
was aroused by a report that several
cases Of smallpox existed In the east
end Of Montreal. Knowing something
OF the filthy conditions Of certain local
tiles, | made O careful sanitary survey
OF all that part Of the city east OF 81.
Lowrence street. and southwest OF Nc
Gin and st. Antoine streets. what /
saw | will attempt to describe-what |
smelled cannot be described. l FOUND
ten thousand seven hundred cess-pits
reeking with rottenness and unmention-
able filth. Many Of these pest holes
had not been emptled for years The
accumulated filth was left to poison the
air OF the city and make II the seed-bed
ior the germs OF zynlotic ulsedses, vi
ther l FOUND the courts a mes. an anu
lanes IN as PAD conultion az my va
sloiy could pe-uecayins aniinal smu
vegetable matter apounoea on dl, sIu y.
Everywhere unsightly and offensive OBJ
yects met tne eye, anu aooi niaaasa
smens proved tne eAlssense "a y,sS ~ =
ehgehdering matter Nnlcn supp,isu Nv
very conoluohs necessary ior .m u,
cuoa.loh, houfish''ent anu sio"'"
smallpox. -
knowing Wen tne i.a,lu, ou, os
quence that would result d drVl' we Pr =
ence OF suoh a mass OIL nun ~ su.n q
oensely popuia'ea par, ol VA, Hie NJ. ny,
gave the widest pupuclty 10 'ne su 1877
hoping merely 10 rouse .ne ii III .,
authorlties 10 a piVpeI app eI.asi r,h -
we danger tnat nenaceu .ie MAJ" ~
me city. but 1 was q" aIa' MS eI,i
ADVICE went uhheeoea anu ,, w ,a m'.a
rsnaiheu, as nest iol .ne ~, .,.aneth
OF smallpox, "nicn grew ~ .uems.a
anu Virulehce IaPluis' u' a., 80
mo untimey graves; laSi' ,, ny Co..,
,ocantles ! nave nien u.i nm, n9,n,nsl
hundped persons Victims ., y, 'i ~ ai,h
rs'ect. instead VI iS IN ,harl
anu putting 'hS Satens,ya candit,on