The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-26


here by way of diversion, as they take
the waters In other countries. There is
no example of any one that has died of
it, and you may believe | am we'll salts
| fed-of the safety of the experiment, since
| intend to try it on my dear little son."
| And yet this very safe experiment was
! declared by Act of Parliament, to be
unlawful after being practiced lao years.
Thousands of Turks We're inoculated
every year according to this good lady
with genuine smallpox without single
death. and now millions are vaccinated
with the same poison after it has gone
! through the COW with death rate of
! one a week in England from the opera
Ition and Ii per cent from smallpox af-
ter the most, scientific vaccinations, and
/ 65 per cent after faulty vaccinations
! Would it not be better for the English
i Parliament to repeal it's anti-inoculation
law and put veto upon vaccination? Be-
! fore vaccination got much foothold in
England aud while incubation was in
vogue-'From 1896 to 1926 there was not
any epidemic of smallpox in London.
Since then epidemics have followed in
rapid succession One in 1885, one in
1S40-1, again in 1844-5, in 1S4S, in 1872,
in 1854-5-6. in 1S59-60, and in 1S63-4-5."
Since 1865 | have not the data, and there
fore cannot say, but doubtless there
have been many outbreaks between that
time and 1900. 1t has been in London
during 1901 and at the present time the
spread of it is fearful. The opponents
of vaccination say, the remedy, or rather
the preventive is causing the disease.
but l am getting my facts from strong
advocates of vaccination, and l quote
further from Mr.. Marson. Comparing
the mortality from incubation which was
practiced in London from 1921 to 1922,
a period Of 101 years, with the present
mortality from smallpox after vaccina-
ton the result is immensely in favor of
incubation. Mr. Marson says, in 1746,
the Smallpox and incubation Hospital,
London, was founded, that the poor might
partake of the benefits of incubation,
which had hitherto been confined to the
rich. incubation was continued there
until 1922 (76 years.. DR.. Gregory went
carefully over the records of the hos
pital for this period, and found that
only three in thousand died of inocu
lation" In 1901 one hundred and forty
in a thousand died who took smallpox
after the most scientific vaccination,
and $50 in a thousand died after faulty
vaccination. And yet, with these facts
staring an uniformed public in the face.
the cry is vaccinate, vaccinate, just as
nineteen hundred years ago the cry, by
the same uniformed public was cruelty,
cruelty! And the law makers, to show
how little they are governed by facts and
reason, have made the practice which
killed three and saved 497, unlawful and
the present practice Of vaccination which
kills 140 and saves $50, not only unlawful
but compulsory. This reasoning is based
upon the so per cent of deaths which
have taken place in London in 1901 from
small-p in the unvaccinated. The logic
is unassailable whatever the ignorant
public may submit to, and whatever the
equally ignorant advocates of vaccination
may say to the contrary. Fortytwo yer
sons were saved by incubation to one
saved by vaccination, and yet incubation
is made unlawful by the English Paria-
ment and vaccination made compulsory
in Wilson And why was it made unlaw-
full by English legislation? l will let
Mr. Marson tell: The great objection
to it was, that it spread smallpox just
as the natural disease did" Did it?
w
says, From 1896 to 1926 there was not
any epidemic of smallpox in London.
After that came the epidemic of 1888"
Now, this was Immediately prior to the
suppression of incubation by law. In
about the same period Immediately fol-
lowing the adjustment of incubation and
the substitution of vaccination, there
were no less than eight epidemics, two
Il Ii, g.. Lot ~I
two years and two lasted one year Now,
after vaccinating for one hundred years
smallpox is making more ravages in
London than ever before, and if the erup-
ton prevailing in the United States at
the present time is smallpox, we have
a wider spread of that disease than ever
was in the world before.
AS a further comparison of the pre-
ventve value of incubation and vacci-
nation against smallpox Mr.. Marson
says, "At time when there were proba-
bly, about as many persons in England
who had been inoculated for small pox,
as had been vaccinated, the number of
those admitted into the Small pox Hos
pital with smallpox for series of years
were but as ! per cent after incubation,
TO SO per cent after vaccination" Here
incubation is shown to be 80 times bet
ter as preventive than vaccination
but, says the advocate of vaccination,
T"Cow-pox is not intended to prevent, but
to modify the smallpox" Let Mr.. Mar
son continue his story: 1.-THE disease. as
modified by vaccination, received the
name of variolod. Perhaps the best term
for it is smallpox modified by vaccina-
ton when it is modified; but it is not
always modified in persons who have
been vaccinated. Besides there are va
rious degrees of modification, when it is
modified; it is not always even like
chicken-pox unfortunately, but often
hardly modified at ALL and such patients
frequently die. Smallpox after vaccina-
tion has, in fact, various degrees of Sc
verify and modification, from the slight
est form in which there is none, or hard
ly any eruption at all, to the most Sc
we're confluent cases, closely, often ex-
actly resembling the disease in the un-
vaccinated; and it also assumes the
petechial and malignant types after vac
cination just as in the unvaccinatcd
state" He further testifies to the in
efficiency of vaccination in variety of
disease known as corymbose smallpox