The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-07
SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION

To The salt Lake Herald
The argument used by the News against
vaccination applied equally TO all medical
treatment. also to inventions Innovations,
My husband uses auti-toxin i'm diph-
iberia sulphO-carbOIates i'm typhoid,
salicylates I'm rheumatism, ct al; may not
these do harm somewhere DE tue dlleid-
tons they effcct2 a crank objected 10
locomotives, because, said he, lhe
products of their intense combustion
p0is0ns the world Another objected TO
electric lights because their unusual
waves caused iusidiOus pathological con-
diLiDus. / doubt very much 1T Herbert
Spencer classes himself with the enemies
Of vaccination, yet ridiculous as Lhls IS, a
senator testifyug 90 The efficacy or Wen
alcOh0liZed Uuack medicine goes 90 prove
that the wisest men all have am INTEL
lectUaly blind side. Compulsory Naccln-
alton I'm Porto Rico has tradlcated small
box from that island. There seems to be
some foundation 90 the theories Of LOm-
brOss and Max NOrdau. when genius adj
yocaung anti-vacciuatlon utters its
rankings.
Three months ago my husband dag
uOsed q case of smallpox. Before any
erupuOus appeared quarantine IN TINS
case and prompt vaccination of everyone
In the community were erected me
patient was badly pltted, and the disease
was continent but no one I'm the town
of Go population. not even her nurses
,who was VaCcuatcd promptly TOOK
IT, Utah keeps her cold storage stock OF
smallpox Ou hand, year AFTER year. oe-
cause some OF her public men and leading
newspapers line Up with the lnli-Facclua-
U1uiSts This year the smallpox rs worse
than 10 was iu 1900 l CLEAN from her
health rep1rtsl. The disease was inn
ported from Cuba, possibly the Philip
pines.
smallpox going north from the tropics
grows mIlder; upon remaining In the
north it grows more severe year by year.
ID better be crushed out before it Kills
aJ per cent of those who have no.. as IL
has done iu epia-mles iu nay husband.
experience. For newspaper writer's 10 set
mp Judgment against the medical PROBES
sion uu this vaccination question Is as
unreasonable as for sick man to argue
with bis nurses upon his treatment
Many able and distinguished physicians
have ever seen. or AT best had. any cX-
peritucc with smallpox. much less man
aged epldemics. and they might think
10 against their interest 20 favor vaccina-
ton.
The fact IS, few busy doctors care TO
yacciudte, 10 being an undesirable kind of
practice. To assert that the profession
favors vaccination because oil financial
r-cpmpeuse Isl absurd and untrue. i
know of two different epidemics the
management of which was thrust upon
my husband because the other physicians
would not accept the work claiming and
that Justly. that 10 would cripple their
physician rather help abort or destroy its
spread. During these times. doctor lost
Tor the time being it not completely de-
stroyed. much or all other practice Now
some doctor has 20 handle the smallpox
.n communities, and no practicing ply
siJlau would be q praCuciug physician III
he could afford 90 destroy or loose his
practice for the small remuneration from
cases Of smallpox. But ] did not take
up my pen 90 fight for thc doctors but In
order 90 meet the auti-yacciuatiOulsts 4
was compelled TO answer their own argu-
meuts.
Vaccination is purely and simply an
ordnance for hygiene and sanitation.
Why. L am responsible for the condition
OF my cesspOu out buildings, pig pen,
COW sheds, etc, lu town, because if foul
they Interfere with the sanitation Of the
community 40 large. So ordinances are
passed and health officers appointed 20
look after my yard. So good. I won [
take preventive measure a. e. having my
/. family Vacciuated) so they come down
/ with smallpoX but have 10 light But my
neighbOrs catch il and several die III
/ one of my family has continent smallpox
I l8ud I'm some places for any type) my
child ls taken To the pest house. if j had
| the night 20 refuse 20 accept preventive
| measures, i also have the right to keep
the child az my residence: for taking peO-
pie 20 pest houses. whether they viii or
no. ls an infringement on the rights of
"a free American citizen. lt is my right
90 keep that child there and endanger the
/ health Of everyone ln the region, III my
child goes unvaccinated Pre- is just as
much a nuisance 10 the health of that
community as any unsanitary condition
OF ms premises.
N We are going 20 draw 80 broad a
line for the rights OF citizens. why quar-
antIne3 I could refer you 90 OF copy
page after page OF statistical matter from
medical and lay journals Ou the Success
/ fully preventive quality of vaccination
| lu this country and others in the nine
tenth century and others
Utah Is the dearest state in the Union
! 20 me, so no prejudice except for her
welfare, hiases me-
MRS C. D.. BOYNTON
"a Doctors Wlfe)
Los Banos, Cal