Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-20

rule should be observed in all the schools. Every child now attending the schools should be vaccinated and no new ones should be admitted unless they could show certificates certifying that they had been vaccinated. This would prevent confusion in the schools in case we should have another visit from the dreaded disease at some future time.
 Some people who were vaccinated in the old country claim that they sub- mitted to the operation here as an ex- ample to others rather than any safe guard for themselves. In many parts of the old world people who were in- oculated had mild attack of real smallpox. An authority on the sub- ject says that the practice of produc- ing varioloid purposely during good health or leisure is of very ancient origin. In England 1t was very much in vogue in ITS and the years immediately following, where it was introduced from Turkey by Lady Mon tague, at the time wife of the British ambassador to that country. The method then in use was to introduce a small quantity of the fluid from the vesicles or pustules into an abrasion or beneath the skin. The disease con- tracted in this way would make it's appearance about forty y-eight hours after 1noculatiOn and run the typical course of varioloid. but in mild way. Rarely q malignant case would be produced and death follow, but this was so unusual as not to deter the majority from continuing the prac- tice. The main drawback to the method was that the disease was true smallpox and as such would not only confer immunity, but would render each subject possible source of in- lection to all unprotected, virtually creating an artificial epidemic Jen- her published his account of yaccin- ating with cowpox i'll 179S and the method was soon after accepted by the medical profession. But while inoculation with varioloid virus be- came an offense against the law, it was continued in many parts of the British possessions and even to this day many have their children inocu-
 lated in this way. It is prohibited
 by the laws of Great Britain and
 probably this is one reason why so
 many of our people who were born in
 Ireland think it just right. Anyway.
 the method is still in use there. but the operation has to be performed
 without the knowledge of the authori-
 ties and is usually attended to after children have been inoculated with coWpox virus
 Here Is a paragraph taken from a London paper of February Q, 1902 Which may be of interest at this time Before the smallpox broke out in the Mlle-end (Stepney) infrmary, thirty nve or the forty-three nurses in the es taplshment were re-vaccinated; of the elgnt who were not re-vaccnated seven has already contracted smallpox
 While not one of the thirty-five who were re-vaccinated has caught the dis ease The registrar-genera reports
 that sixty deaths from smallpox oc
 5ltred in the seventy-six great towns
 of England and Whales last week, if ty-four belonging to London, three tx Iottenham, and one each to West Ham
 East Ham and Plymouth. The Lon
 don total shows a decrease. there har ing been siXty-four in the pres-
 week. Sixty-three fresh cases
 notified in London on Tuesday.
 ty-four of these coming from Sfa.# f On Wednesday there were 1 1,224 smai. pox patients under treatment in Tor:
 don, the highest number yet recorded since the epidemic began"
 The board of charities issued abon seventy certificates for free yaccina tion to-day. This is q good time fol 1 people to have themselves and theil children inoculated. The tickets car be had at the office of the board O charities, the place formerly occupied by the selectmen. People should no be any way bashful about calline there. A few doctors are doing tht
 work gratis, so that no one should
 look upon it as anything they need b, l ashamed of. Come on now If yol wait too long you may have to pay o 1 get out of town.
 The Theriault smallpox case was re
 ported yesterday morning, but it wa
 not investI ated until late in the af ternoon. 4shis was due to the fact tha the health officer was occupied witt l the patients at the isolation hospital Many claim that physician should b. l employed to remain at the hospital al 1 the time and let the health officer de
 vote his time to examining eases re
 ported to him and caring for tn quarantined parties.