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

impression that the Board Of Educa-
,ion had decided to enforce vacclna-
tlon In the city schools. This idea
would be incorrect. IL was only In
committee that such declsion was
reached. by bare majority. Tho Board
has yet to act on the recommendation
OF that committee. II IL to be hoped
that the Board will pause and consider
the extent and also the limit OF it, law.
fui powers. We do not think that body
should attempt TO enforce what tho
LEGISLATURE OF the state refused TO
make compulsory by law.
Recently the Minnesota state Board
Of Health issued an order. that oil
rcho0l children BE- refused admission 10
school unless they furnished q ccriifi-
cate that thew had been duly-as one
paper expressed it-''pus- poisoned
This raised considerable cxcitcmentand
the matter was referred TO Attorney
General Douglas. who promptly decided
that. THE right 90 require vaccination
as a condition precedent to admission
20 school Is not expressly conferred by
statute and does not exist" The Board
OF Education OF Salt Lake city will
hnd Itself confronted with a similar
legal barrier. The school laws do not
require vaccination NJ condition pre-.
ccdcnt to admission TO the public
schools. nor DO they confer upon school
boards any auch arbitrary power NJ
that which certain doctors are now try
iug to induce thom 10 exercise.
The whole question Of the virtues or
vicious consequences Of vaccination vs.
open to serious controversy. We are
aware that hosts Of physicians In both
homisphores have driftod into the cur
rent OF the Jenner theory. II " claimed.
however. by many eminent scientists
nnd practitioners. that condolences
have been taken for cause and eject.
and that facts do not establish the
truth OF the vaccination hypothesis. The
medical world adopted the incubation
process with as much avidity and en-
thusiasm ns they afterwards fell into
the present vaccination idea. Smallpox
was actually put into the bodies OF
healthy people, on the notion thnt II
would save them from severer form
OF the disease. by this means the hithy
disorder was spread In Europe like a
plague. Vaccination has been adopted
In It's place. but with no more general
acceptance By the faculty than the
urlglhai process o' "h'oh II '''''
| fled imitation.
There IL an nntl.vnccinntion society
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| purpose OF resisting the compulsory
movement by interested persons. The
| .ocic,v Inns n monthly ,ournnl which
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from vaccination. These have occurred
| I'm varlous parta OF the Union. and a
tendency TO blood. poisoning. which II
| mora, ans, in tho innd IL attributed Ia
the prcvaicnce NJ varclnatlon. Refer
ence il made also TO the breaking GU,
~ snailnox Among ynecinatcd and re-.
vnccinnted soidiers by whom. IN many
coses A. has boen carried 10 various
plnre. The outbreul, nj the Presidlo In
| c.itsorri, IL cltcd In ovldence. From
that paper we ouote the following;
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schools eaeh year In, ever fpresont yac.
cinator is on hand. only too frequently
encouraged by school boards and othei
ol. ,i stanu,ns upon w ,n'fsn VIZ,
lntion OF reason. logic. Justice. and corn
mon sense. The reason the people d,
not more strongly object 10 thlH ulsense
, "rvss ,yha, yaccinstiom Wv a nv
have been taught TO believe that il vii
usually prevent and always mitigate
smallpox, olyeerihat.I-e,l lt- iyin ny, y
Az nrnrtice tone@r a"cent, NJ
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