Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-18


1871 there were three epidemlcs OF
smallpox, each being more severe than
the one preceding.
Deaths
Date from smallpox
First, 1857, IS and Pa
Second 1868, "a and '65. 20. 05g
Third, 1870, II and '72...n...a...i4,SlO
Increase OF population from first TO
second epidemic. per cent. Increase
Of smallpox in the same period nearly)
80 per cent. Increase OF population
from the second to the third epidemic.
10 per cent. Increase Of smallpox in the
same period i2O per cent.
Deaths from smallpox I'm the first ten
years after the enforcement Of vacclna-
ton, 1854 to 1863. 33,5l5 In the second
ten years, 1864 to 1878, 70,45S. From a
letter 10 the Right Hon. G. Solater
Booth, NJ, T., February, 1877, by c. Il.
Pearce, NJ. r. c. S.
The city of Leicester, England, dem
onstrated to the world that sanitation
ana not vaccination is the preventative
or smallpox. The citizens as a body
rebelled against compulsory vaccina-
uOn and the practice was gradually re-
duced from VI per cent TO 8 per cent.
They paid much attention TO sanitary
conditions and almost entirely ban
ished smallpox In 1892 and SO there
were 220 cases and 10 deaths, there be-
ing 100000 inhabitants In the city. In
Sheffield, with 100000 inhabitants. rs
per cent vaccinated, there were 5000
cases and 6iS deaths in the epidemic
! Of 1878.
In England during the ten years. 1881
TO 1891, there were $40 deaths set down
against vaccination by the official reg
istrar Of vital statistics Not mention
ing all the other harm done by the vile
| practice. But the defenders OF yaccina-
ton viii say they did not have the pure
calf lymph. In 1864 the Vaccine Insti-
| tute, Of Belgium, was founded and
from II arose numerous branches In
! Europe and America Surely before
1881 all could obtain the pure CD calf
! lymph.
Those that desire to be correctly in
! Formed on these questions can get re-
ha0le information from DR.. Creigh-
TONS article Vaccination" in the En-
| cyelopaedia Britannica ninth edition.
We will submit here testimony re-
garding the question before US from
some OF the best authorities.
DR.. George Gregory, for fifty wears
director OF the smallpox hospital in
London, published the following declar
atoms in the Medical Times, OF London.
Smallpox does invade the vaccinated.
and the extirpatlon Of that dire disorder
Is as distant as when Il was first heed
lessly, and In my humble Judgment.
most presumptuously anticipated by
Jenner."
Or. W. j. Collins, for twenty-five
years public vaccinator Of London.
England, says: There really exists no
change IN the virulent character of the
smallpox Notwithstanding the yaccIna.
ton laws and of those attacked by the
disease, at least two-thirds were salts.
factorily vacclnated. have not the
least confidence In vaccination; Il
nauseates me, for II often transfers
filthy and dangerous disease without
offering any protection whatever We
unfortunately have no method Of ascer-
tanning the imDurity Of the vaccine
lymph, except by its results: and these
are not surprising when we remember
II contains precisely the same micro
scopic particles as are found In fluids
capable Of producing the acutest blood
poisoning
Albert Terrace, Gloucester Gate. n.
40 - - ANN-s III RVlilllN Hdu Nht-
cinated thousands. but at last aban-
doned q lucrative practice and refused
to permit his children to be vacclnated.
DR.. John Epps, twenty-five years d.
rector OF the Jennerlan Institute.
London. has vaccinated about 100000 |
people, but finally declared "The vac |
cine virus is poison. AS such 1t pene- !
trates all organic systems, and nfects
them In such way as to act impress /
siyely on the box. II Is neither anti |
dote nor corrigent, nor does IL NEUTRAL |
ize the smallpox. but only paralyzes !
the expansive power of a good constl- /
tuition, so that the disease has 10 fan |
back upon the mucous membrane |
Nobody has the right 10 transplant |
such mischicvous poison compulsor-
ily into the life Of a child"
DR.. Stowell, NJ, r. c. s., Of London.
thirty years vaccine practitioner,
says; THE nearly general declaration |
OF my patients enables me TO proclaim
that vaccination is not only an illu.
sion, but curse 10 humanity. More
than ridioulous-it Is Irrational TO say
that any corrupt matter taken from
bOils and blisters OF an organic crea.
ture. could affect the human body
otherwise than TO injure II. First il
was asserted that vaccination protect
ed for life. When this proved a fall
ure, revaccinatlon In every seventh
year was proposed, but this also failed.
Then there was a want OF sufficient
cowpsX Well, cows were inocuated
with human pox. and the suppureated
matter produced by this operation was
called pox-lymph, fresh from the COW,
rms bastard poison is now transferred
into human bodies, no matter what
disease man or brute may have had.
but II Is called nowadays genuine vac
cine. From letter 20 the Lancet.
Thos, Brett, VI. D., OF London. saws:
After fifty years experience, arrived
at the conclusion that vaccination was
not only useless as a preventative, but
dangerous. ! decline the risk OF vac
cination and would not vacclnate my
bitterest enemy Speech April 18th.
1853.
Sir James Paget. surgeon extra
ordinary TO her majesty, says: "The
progress Of vaccine or variolous infec-
tion OF the blood shows us that n per.
manent morbid condition OF that fluid
is established by the action OF these
specific nolsons on IT,"
a. NJ. Ross. NJ d., +. r. s. L.. Eng.
says: mo rational theory ever has
been or can be advanced 60 support
the ridiculous assumption that vaccine
alton protects from smallpox. One
thing is certain. thousands OF children
are Killed annually by vaccination. or
Its after results and these victims OF
medical Ignorance and stupidity are
The only persons Of whom IL can be
asserted with truth that vaccination
protected from smallpox.
HOW VACCINE PUs is OBTAINED.
The vaccine virus or corruption Is
obtained by passing either smallpox, ,
'owpox or humanized pox through
attic. as follows; A calf or heifer IL
noculated on It's shaver abdomen In ,
bout sixty places. Upon the pune !
ures thus made vesicles form. The
'esioles run their due course, and the
'acclne virus which they contain Is