Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-21
ABOUT VACCINATION.
MEASURE MOST
BENEFICIAL FOR CHILDREN.
Death Rate IL Low la Proportion - the
Evidences OF Thoroughncss Revealed
by the sears Medical Men Favor Com
pulsory NRcCination.

smallpox in Ontario shows that as the
,courges of the past have become a
memory or a historical record. the pre-
lentive measure that brought the re- /
,ent immunity has been neg ected. /
The nature of the germ of smallpox .
and the pabulum in the human body
on which 1t subsists are as yet un- /.
known, but experience has shown that
the introduction Of the vaccine germ
sets up an action that results in GER
tain amount of immunity from small
pox and lessons the virulence of the
disease. One result reasonably attribu-
table to vaccination is the transference
Of the most fatal period from child
hood to maturity. In Geneva from
1880 to 1860 there were 25,349 deaths
from smallpox and over 90 per cent
we're of children under ten years of
age. In Kilmarnock from 1928 to 1864
The proportion of children among the
fatal cases was 9SS in every 1000. In
total of SO, 755 deaths from smallpox
in Kilmarnock. Edinburg, Manchester,
Warrington, Chester, Geneva and The
Hague, in various pre-vaccination pc
riods since 1880 there were 1882 un-
der two years of age. Since children
have been protected by vaccination
the greater proportion of fatalities has
been among adults. In London in 1884
the proportion of children was 6l2 in
ever 900 deaths among the unvacci-
mated and in the vaccinated commu-
nifty there were only SO children in
every 900 fatal cases. In Prussia both
vaccination and revaccination are
compulsory, and from 1916 to the pass
ing of the law of 1874 the smallpox
death-rate was 309 per annum per mil
lion of population. Since then, down
to 1892, it has been 10. and in the last
ten years of the period only II. The
compulsory vaccination age is the sec
ond year of life, and in 1SS6-90 more
than two-fifths of the few deaths that
occurred from smallpox were under
two years of age. In Austria, where
vaccination is not compulsory, the
rate. instead of being Z per million,
as in Prussia was 45S in the same pc
riod. In Italy since 1888 vaccination of
Infants has been compulsory, as has
revaccination of children attending
pubic schools. From 1881 to 1890 the
smallpox death rate was 1855 per mil
lion per annum, and in lS9l-94 it was
only Go. At the time of the European
epidemic of 1S70-75 Scotland, England,
Sweden and Bavaria had a compul-
sorry vaccination law. and their small
poX rates per million in the worst
years were 1,470, 1890 1850 and $50
respectively Prussia, Holland and
Austria had no general compulsory
vaccination, and their rates in the
worst years were 5000, 5,490 and 6.1S0
Coming to 1S77-S6, with vaccination
! infantile vaccination compulsory il
England. and with vaccination and re
vaccination compulsory in Prussia, the
average death rate per million from
smallpox in the capitals of these three
countries was, in Vienna go, in Lon
don $50. and in Berlin 10. The coun
| ill Of the British Medical association
has issued a pamphlet setting forth ir
ondensed form the facts elected by
he royal commission on smallpox an,
vaccination. According to the recorC
lf three towns. Dewsbury. Leicester
and Gloucester, where vaccination haC
been neg ected, it was found tha
among 72 vaccinated children at
lacked two died. or 81 per cent, bu
lmong 961 unvaccinated children at
.acked $50 died, or 1913 per cent. TAX
ng persons over 10 years old, amonl
1859 vacclnated persons attack
ed there we're 1876 deaths, or o.
Der cent, and among 33l unvaccinate
persons there were IS deaths, or 30
per cent. This record is supplements
ly figures which show that amoni
hose recorded as vaccinated the deaf
-ate is low in proportion TO the evi
lences of thoroughness revealed b.
the scars. OF 0,403 cases in Homer
on hospital 2,S15 had good vaccina
ion marks. and the fatalities anon
them were per cent; 4,S54 had indir
ferent marks, and the ratio OF fatal
les was per cent; 1895 were allege
20 nave been vaccinated but had n
scars. and of them 8 per cent wer
fatal. while the unvaccinated mum
bered 2,1G9, with 43 per cent of fatal
ties. TIE evidence collected show
that the medical associations Of Brit
ain and other countries are abundant
justified in favoring compalsor
vaccination as a measure Of pub
safety. and il would be extremely dan
.gerous to relax ouI vigilance in a mat
Ter nf such vital imnOrtance