The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-02-24

} last Monday III bayou LatOurcDe IL
!, front of Rlenzi plantation. 1t seems
that he was crossing anoth'r ma,
{ and the skiff IN which they wer,
seated capsized, Richardson wal
r drowned, but the man he was cross
lug saved himself
There were ten couples married il
The Catholic Church at Abbev,lle or
Wednesday evening last. Father
Laforest married them all at once
The contracting parties are all vel
known IN Abbevllle and vicinity.
An Odd Fellows Lodge has been
established at Gueydrn under the
style of Gueydan Lodge No. SO. MI
William Haste is the first Noble
Grand and Bernard Isaacs, Sec
retary.
A new building is about to be
constructed for the Lake Charles
National Bank. The structure Will
be of brick and stone. and the fix
lures will be of a costly nature.
Kindly answer the following
question: Is it necessary to be
vacinnated more than once in life
as a protection against smallpox?
Is smallpox catchingin open air, or
it is communicated to person by
contact?
When vaccination was first in
troduced it was believed that it
would afford in all cases complete
and permanent protection from
smallpox But it was discovered
that those who had been well and
Thoroughly fvacinnated were still
liable to Some extent to attacks of
smallpox, and though in general
the disease,was modified (variohod)
and rendered shorter and milder,
still it occasionally resulted i'll
death. The degree of protection
afforded by vaccination thus be-
came question of great interest.
It's extreme value was easily de-
monstrated by statistical research
es. In England, in the last half
of the eighteenth century, out of
every 1000 deaths, SO occurred
from smallpox, in the first half of
the present century out of every
1000 deaths but 35 were caused by
that disease. The amount of
mortality in a country by small
pOx seems to bear a fixed relation
to the extent to which vaccinna-
ton is carried out. Statistics
from number of European coun
tries when vaccination was more
or less compulsory, show that the
propOrtiOnatt number of deaths
from smallpox varied from 2 per
1000 in Bohemia, Lombardy and
Sweden, to S.;33 per 1000 in Sax
ony. Although in many instances
persons who had been vaccinated
were attacked with smallpox IN a
more or less modified form, it was
noticed that the persons so attack
ed had commonly been vaccinated
many years previously. The mere
lapse of time in many cases seems
sufficient to destroy the protective
influence of vaccination. II
The duration of the protective
influence varies with different in |
dividuals. The same thing hap. |
pens with regard to the protective
influence of an attack of small pox
itself; in most persons it lasts for
life; many, after a brief period
more or less prolonged, are liable
to a second attack, while eases
have occurred in which a third at
tack has proved fatal. In all eases;
seams to be a test of
the loss or presence Of the prOtec-
tive influence; to render the test
certain, where revaccination does
not succeed on the first trial, it
should be carefully performed a
second time.
Small pox is communicated by
remote contagion, or infection
Plaquemines Protector.
The stores of ice at Windsor,
Osborne and Balmorai are very
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