Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-25
TO THE DISTRICT COMMISSION.
ERS

alleged report that received such bold
publicity through the local press, in
answer 10 my communication to you,
aud as have failed to receive recog.
nition through the same medium for
any reply am compelled to again al
dress you upon the same subject
caunot cut compare my communi-
cslio0 10 the Soldiers Mothers let
;sr, sen, last August 10 the President,
complaining thar bad meat was being
packed foe the army. This letter was
referred to the commissary department,
auc thea 10 tns packers, who OF course
denied re allegation. Had this letter
received the consideration il merited
Jne lives sacrificed ia the late war
would have been only those due to
meo.cs! lucomPstency.
appealed 70 you, and again do 50,
i9E 4. Gls.nlerested !nqGlry, especially as
{ doctors had shown such lamenta.
nls ignorance, iac5 they deliberately
published % the public.
There is no gain in slurring over the
facts with the statement that my sug-
gesfions were 100 erralic to be follow
o., therefore not susceptible of intelli
rent consideration. The report of the
tNeuty physicians is very much doubt
ed pv many VINO nave written to me up
on this suuject, and to an intelligent
person would carry no weight, for it
would be impossible to obtain evidence
(avsu if they desired TOY OF vaccination
so long after death aud burial. Many q
man was vaccinsted unknown to his
friends. Had list OF the twenty cases
beer published it may have been OF
some value, for q casual investigation
OF ten among the first Gases, eight were
undoubtedly vaccinated three weeks
ana one mouth prior to death, Also
every physician should know that the
ackuowleds sed primary cause OF cere-
Dro spinal meningitis, pyaemia or sep
ticaemia, may be caUs d hy slight
-cratch, the surface wouud readily heal
and death result from hloodpoison.
The sllusion TO the 2l000 vaccinations
is too ABSURD for comment. Who ex'
pected it to produce q 900 cases of
cereDro spinal meningitls? Is not so
OGdIuS wv ~ hiNh ANN S'-i NA' -
other ills that may and will result from
it. The statement that five years ago
81. 900 vaccinations did not produce
single case, is OF the same category, for
the disease caused is solely dependent
upun the different germ innoculated as
vaccine. Did the 10000 vaccinations
prevent one single case OF smallpox :?
How many vaccinated persons took the
disease? Or was it stamped out" as
among the poor soldiers in Manila who
were four times vacciDated and eight
weeks after there were ia admissions
to the smallpox hospital and 50 deaths .
NV letter was sent TO you In good
faith. as have made slight study OF
this disease and based my suggestions
upon the result of personal observation
and research.
Twe.ve years ago investigated two
cases (one fataD, and as two COWS had
died in the same parish of spinal men-
ingitis, l was led to trace the milk sup
ply. but according to ali the accepted
theories, infection could not be traced
20 that source The fatal case died in
Two DAYS, the second was cupped and
trestei as for acute uremic poisoning
ana recovered, but up 10 thus day Is
sutIsrjog from Bright's disease, OF
waich there was no hereditary history
10 bis iamiv. These youths had gone
witb narly to a neighboring town to
enlist. and had not associated IN any
wav prior or subsequently,, and we're
oalv together when before the same
surgeon 30 be vaccinated and il cou-
taeion resulted from ths same source
It aaDpeue3 ST that moment.
If The kidueys OF any ten cows are
subjected TO examination my supposl-
ion will be fully borne out by sny in
.eilicenG medical faculty. could
oaote S eases in Washington as positive
1slha above. also in Mississippi lO 10
,Isryisui ana in Nebraska. Il would
"a wise Il public officials were prohioit-
e6 r,cn making puDic their opinions
asnec;allv yf unon subject where lg-
norsnce is acknowledged. such opin-,
ions should be official only, and
should have some weight, instead OF
such cratic suggestions, blaming hrst
me blizzard. bere yellow fever and now
lerre army camps, etc. Il the money
wasfed during tie late epidemic had
oeen used 90 equip schooi LOT the
study of public health, sanitary science
and endemoeoidemic diseases, i: would
save the District great expense, Tor dur-
ing the scare" I investigated sixteen
cases and could not 6nd trace OF
SMALLPOX. found cases OF disease,
seldom if ever fatal, which was CAMEO
in Eaelsnd sweating sickness"
and in Spain and Italy "upiitary
lever The chief symptoms are proluse
sweating. peculiar eruption and character, ;,
istic nervous phenomena. IT was epi9enmn'S gem
some rimo ago near sumter, 5. O., some 2'oo>
rases no restrictions, 60 quarantine, ne
deaths. aud it passed off IS any MINOR epi
demic i', Of measles or the ike (the people weE'
PIN. ! NAV rot be gifted with the intelligence
of the compiler Of The Report but kh1N ,'
sufficient of chemistry, bscteriology ana .n'
patholcgr of the diseases OF sniinai' .l'us
N ss.ble to man. snd I have seen 700 mah.
cssts of csncor. consumption, Brignt ulseaS2
and now cerebro spinal menineitlS oirecIi /.