The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-11

history or either OF the 6pose e1oSSS "
iumunity. second vaccination was al
Tvs successful by taking particular
care as 10 method and by selecting with
equal care a good tube OF lymph
Now As the Two latter causes, gwen
above are not 50 common. these soldiers
must have been immune from previous
vaccination. so that II : really case IN
favu~ or vaccination Twenty years IS
rot too long 10 look for the immunity
conferred by vaccination, for, 10 quote
again from the report OF the Vaccination
Commission section 81, '-The protective
POTENCY OF vaccination possibly never al
together ceases
I also disagree with your correspond
ent when she calls IN question the fact
thar AL dagger Of transmitting disease
Is done away with
In nv experience as a public VAGINA
tor in England (and there all except our
first cases were done from arm 10 arm'D
never once saw q disease communicate
I'd This was due 70 z double precau-
rion. I Did not stop at examining the
denor for any latent OF skin disease but
I examined the child TO be vaccinated,
too. and If anything suspicious existed
postponed vaccination for three months.
Many thus treated in the meantime de-
ve;oped eczema or some constitutional
disease, and had I vaeeinated HIN. vac
citation would have got the blame for
II. as 1t has often done in the past.
But here vaccination is done with
Ivrnph from healthy calf Yes; I say,
healthy calf in spite Of your correspond
ent's question as 10 how t can be
healthy when its system is poisoned
with the germs Of filthy disease.
The making OF such statement is the
natural result OF those who write OF
things they do not know Il may en-
tighten your correspondent TO be inform
I'd that vaccine land consequently the
eaiD does not contain the germs OF
smallpox at all. It is cowpox-Quite a
distinct condition Milk from cows with
cowpox is good TO drink: at least it was
drunk in the time OF Jenner. and it was
due 10 mis- noticing the fact that mixers
affected with vesicles Caused by contact
with udders OF such cows were immune
10 smallpox that caused him TO bring
forth the boon OF vaccination and be-
stow II on suffering humanity. Conse-
oUentiy il is only an appeal TO sentt-
rnent and not common sense or fact TO
ask why should law compel healthy
person TO nh his system with the germs
of one OF the flthiest diseases. when they
are not there
Now, Mr. Editor, I thiRk I have sue
cesied in overthrowing some OF the ar
guments brought forth against VAGINA
ton and have quoted largely from the
Report OF the SGElHdl4Vl SOH-44-SclO1l
of 1895 mainly because your correspond
ent herself thinks so highly Of il that
she quotes it Now let me conclude with
sections s7s and 4s4 OF that report:
a careful examination of fact leads
20 the conclusion that, although some Of
the dangers said TO attend vaccination
are undoubtedly real and not ineonsid-
cradle in gross amount, yet when con-
sidered in relation TO the extent OF vac
cination work done, they are insignifi-
cant and diminishing in numbers under
the better precautions of the present
day, and are likely still further to di-
u1inish with future precautions which
experience suggests"
This statement was made after care
fully considering the statistics in connec-
ton with syphilis, cancer, erysipelas,
tables mesenterica and scrofula, pyaemia,
bronchitis, diarrhoea, leprosy and skin
diseases, there being found to be no EVIL
dence 10 Justify the statement that vac
cination has either substantially or ap-
probably increased the mortality from
any one of these named land accused by
the anti-yaccinators) diseases"
The editor OF the Medical Annual for
1897 reports:
The fortress OF vaccination has been
assailed by the big guns OF the anti-vac-
cinators, but has proved itself inyulner-
able"
And finally let NE add that the Act
your correspondent says was repealed
IN England in IsS5 was not re-enacted-
\ new Act was passed, which while leav-
ing compulsory vaccination undisturbed,
is entirely devoted to meeting the OBJ
jectiOns TO it in every conceivable way.
The main clause being: No parent or
other person shall be liable to any PEN
atty If within four months Of
the birth Of the child ne satisfies two
justices, or q stipendiary or meIropoH-
tan police magistrate, in petty sessions,
that he conscientiously believes that vac
cination would be prejudicial to the
health OF the child, and within seven
days thereafter delivers to the vaccina-
ton officer for the district q certificate
of such justice or magistrate OF such
conscientious objection"
There would be no objection at all TO
the insertion OF some such clause in our
own vaccination bin: it has not been
abused apparently in England. There the
conscientious objsctOr" craze seems 10
be dying out Statistics show that for
the first half of 1883 S55.ss7 certificates
were issued, as against SIS during
the corresponding portion OF 1855.
A y. SINCLAIR.