The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-03
SALEM
SCHOOL
BOARD
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Recommends Vaccination 10
Parents.
A Medical Opinion Says this
is No True Smallpox.

The Salem school hoard rejected com
pulsory vaccination and leaves 1t TO tns
option Of parents. The board OF directors
for the Salem school district, met satur-
day night, in regular session, and after a
brief discussion, decided to recommend
to parents that pupils in the puDlic
schools be vaccinated, as a preventive
against the disease now appearing III
various parts OF the state. No other ousi'
meas was transacted by the board.
What Is This Disease1
The prevalence OF smallpox through
out the west makes the following article
from the Medical Age especially timely
Il was furnisl ed this wellknown pubh-
cation by l. ~. Brainerd, NJ. D. Alma,
Mich, superintendent Brainerd Surgical
hospital. member Saginaw County Med
ical society, member Michigan State
Medical society, member American Med.
ical association. He says:
"Well, now, what is this disease1 l
d MT know We are calling 1t email
pox upon the principal Of when the
| king takes enuff we all sneeZe, but
| the name is unfortunate; it strikes ter
ror to some, and gives an opportunity 10
some knavish doctors tO rob the puOlic
treasury by iniquitous charges. III Is
worth no more TO take care oi one OF
these cases than it is to take care OF
case Of measles. Almost within my
recollection typhus and typhoid levers
were counted 40 one disease. Then
typhoid fever was split oil ana
christened.
Fifteen wears ago advocated the iden.
tty of diphtheris and membraneous
Group. do not think | had a hearer
who believed it then now everybody ad'
mits il. Twenty years ago many be
lieved in a typho-maiarisl fever proba-
bly, nobody does now. Medical views
are changing. predict this mallpoxS
will be split off from the genuine small
pox and be given a new name.
at might possibly be argued that this
is Variolod but for the fact that people
who have never been vaccinated have 1t
lust like those who have lBdeed IN
my observation, they have had 1t light
err
In all epidemics Of smallpox the
mortality is from 10 to 90 per cent lhyde,
in "A system Of Medicine Pepper, vol
ume 1
: I'm my ~ cases four have had genuine
smallpox before, they claim. This shows
that smallpox does not protect against
this disease. This is an extremely hard
blow at the theory that this disease II
} emit llpox. Especially ia this 80 wher
placed beside the experience OF DR.
Welch, who is Just now 80 much quoted
: Nv our state board of health as al
uthority in smallpox. DR.. Welch say
. that no true second attack was ever wit
messed by him in his 5000 cases in tn,
Philadelphia Municipal hospital.
"In 81 of my cases | have records con
corning former vaccinations. Twenty
seven have, and 70 have not been sue
cessfully vaccnated Most OF these wer
yaccinated only ten months before TIN
. outbreak, and few have been vaccinate'
since the epidemic came on. Had | ha
o any expectation OF using this material
| would have ascertained when the 9th
er vaccinations we're made. Last wee
/ had in my care baby sick with thl
% disease, who two months ago had 1t wit
d. its parents, as they say, and they clair
y that it was much more broken out 9
. that time. A few days ago man was /
my office from Temple, Mich. Il wa
one of the men who had the disease laI
year in the lumber camps and this yea
a the same set OF men are having the dil
, ease again This is hearsay eyidenC
- and must be taken for what II is wortl
So neither smallpox nor vaccination pre-
tects against this disease