The sun., 1901-05-26
ARE YOU VACCINATED?
HEALTH BOARD RBNEWS ITS APPEAL
~ ALL The UNPROTECTED.
II Has Not Been Able to stamp Ont tho Small
pox That Has Beon Hero Since Last Fall
Except in Quarters where vaccinA-
tion Has Been Practically Universal.


tion Has Been Practically Universal.
According to indications at the Board OF
Healths oifice, multitudes Of citizens OF New
York are resting in fancied but most treach-
erous security from the present scourge OF
smallpox The epidemic is in no sense abat-
ing People were frightened last fall when a
uumbcr OF cases Of tho disease were found
within few hours and some hundreds or
perhaps thousands OF them fastened 20 be
vaccinated This rush for vaccination con-
tinued for weeks, and then because fewer
case, Of the scourge were found or announced
in the public prints with each succeeding day,
peoplo ceased TO think about vaccination
and appeared to believe that the danger had
lessened A matter tf'fact, the danger
Is greater now than then.
4 list of the addresses from which victims
have been taken, II recorded by spots on
mao %! the city. or especially on a map OF
Manhattan. would MAKE the map look like
a uv-spegkcd cheCkerboard with scarcely
a square unmarked by the blotchcs The
disea,e /, no more in any one locality; II Is
a. over the city east and west, north and
south. and even central on this island. Only
a few days ago twenty-Six cases were re-
yeea there were nine cases found. on Thurs
DAY twelve cases, and on Friday ten cases,
t.e.e ten being distributed in nine different
houses Up 10 noon yesterday one case had
bsan reported saturday being half-hol-
d. reports do not come in quite as Oh other
,,r. Tho patient recorded yesterday was
tltcn 20 North Brother island from B ellevue
Hc had been received there from Twenty
third street lodging house
The Board Of Health has kept bureaus fol
fee vaccnation open uptown and DOWN
town day aad evening and viii continue to
a. 50. the bureaus being kept open in the
evening until June /. but the people do not
avail themselves Of the privileges offered in
az great numbers Only eight persons
came IN TO be vaccnated on Friday oven
ins. aad only about 100 or $50 come in daily
during the daytime The beard says that
4, order TO accomplish anything effective
toward the stamping out Of the disease. from
CO.. t. 700 persons should be vacclnated every
day
Or B.auyelt said yesterday that except
b. vaccination the board could do nothing
70 stamp oIt the epidemic A yarcina-
ton d, not compulsory, there IS no repres'ive
measure which the board can take The
doctor said that II seemed marvellous now
many people preferred to take the chance
o; getting the smallpox rather than insure
themselves aglnst contagion by gettlng
NgcUnated peculiar feature Of the cpl
CcaIo Is that, although 1t has spread all over
the clrr. there has moi been case oi II among
Oh jews %. the crowded section or IN" lower
Llst side d.. Blanyelt said that the jews
were very particular 70 keep themselves ana
th,r chtidrea well vlccinated, and that their
immunity was the result On the other
hand the Italians and Bohemians are most
ayerse TO being vaccnated and refuse 10 he
vaccnated even when case OF smallpox
found right in their own block in many
Instances They seem to hold 20 a sort of
Chinese ia'ausm and consider that whereas
II they get the smallpox they must be sick
ANYWAY tlav will r1tlar roa0,a that tbo,
-. -. - g. g.. -
TaA sore arm lot ~" biNH
Unless the people will 10 yaccrated. DR.
R,uvelt said the Boord of Health cap do
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H''HlhS IL 'ne P''p!'" Only VIII h' |d'clha'ed
what tho board can do ~ eradicate the disease
from tho CITY is oycnuantlv shown nv the
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