The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-04-13
A Dangerous Relic.

EDITOR The Washington Herald;
How much mo1a respect the Intelligent
public would have for the custodians Of
the public health If they would teach
rational hygiene and sanitation in the
public schools, and through the public
press. instead Of simply putting pus, from
calf, into the pure blood Of helpless lit
tie school children! When the people
know what this stuff is, which is inflicted
upon their children they will withdraw
them from school rather than have them
subjected to such barbarism.
The recent epidemic" IN this city was
started by a man who had been vacci-
mated - successfully vaccinated" - -four
times Now, a health" officer Is vic
tim of smallpox The report is. that he
had never been successfully vaccinated.
No one ever Is, or ever can be-exeepi
those who have been killed from the
deadly virus, before the smallpox reach
ed them!
I know Of a young man who has been
vaccinated three times in the ARM II
didn't take He was then yaccinated
in the leg. and it has taken" enough
TO give him a bad dose of smallpox He
is not expected to live. His poor mother
is distracted can give his name and
address 90 any one who wants II. There
is going to be a finish 10 this business
Of spreading disease to prevent" disease
Mai Thomas LundTen, who is fighting
this curse IN Bridgeport, Conn, where so
many horrible deaths have recently oc-
Cured from vaccination, introduced Hon,
Porter F. Cope Of Philadelphia, to a
large audience in his town. and a highly
interesting, illustrated lecture on ''vacci-
nation" was given. boy Of five years
broke out in sores all over his body soon
after vaccination. Finally one of the
sores came in his eye and rendered him
stone blind This way of preventing
smallpox happened in East Bridgeport
recently.
If the public of Bridgeport can wake W
to the enormity Of this crime, why not
the people Of Washington do the same?
Let Mr. Copes illustrated lecture on
vaccination be given in the Capital City
and see how much longer this outrage
will be enforced upon the people!
Because a crime against Nature does
not bring instant death. the childlike
mind imagine there is no harm in it, Dr.
Jenner killed his frst-born child, eighteen
months old, by vaccination. lie vacci-
mated a boy named John Baker. whom ne
found In a country poOrhouse, and he
died three weeks after the operation.
Smallpox is not half so bad as lu-
Macy" says DR.. Carr. When measles OF
diphtheria typhoid fever. scarlet fever
OF other disease approaches, is the inoeu-
latiOn Of any diseased-animal matter
called for to mitigate or ''cure" IL,
Any man in perfect health is immune to
alF disease. and the nearer he is TO that
condition, the less he needs TO fear any
disease. Smallpox used 10 be classed
with measles. till the doctors got Il
mitigating IL with pusi Let's see how
dangerous" this dread disease Is,
which the medical quacks are reaping
such a harvest from. Ia 1904 there were
5G deaths from smallpox in England and
Wales. In the same year there We're
1906 deaths from measles. $40 frOr
scarlet fever, II, 500 from whooping cough
1864 from diaTrhea. 29,6S2 from cancer
The vaccine used to-day is what JenneI
said was absolutely useless: Let any
doctor write 10 any Of the many vaccine
manufacturers in this country inqulring
what the original source OF their seed
virus is. Then let him think if he wants
such stuff as this put In the blood OF his
own children!
Why don't the health officers and doc
tors come right out and be fair and hon
est with the people? They will gain in
iinitely, in the end, thereby. Why don't
they tell the people that smallpox is a
filth disease. and the way to escape it Is
20 live in as cleanly manner as pos
sible, as regards food bathing. and en-
vironment? Why don't they tell them &c
endeavOr to keep their blood in as pure a
state as pOssible-keep all filth out OF it
There may not be so much money In this
kind Of information for the doctors, but
there is more respect and confidence due
them from the public than when they re-
ceive their hard-times cash, and give
them disease in return for IT, and nc
protection whatever, as is fully H.
Illustrated In Washington to-day.
in just common fairness, ! ask that
compulsory" blood-poisoning be stopped
in the District Of Columbia, the Capital
City OF a great civilized % nationl Utah
has made 1t a crime to require vaceina.
ton. and five other States have repealed
the compulsory vaccination laws. YOU
viii have 10 do It some time. Why don't
you do it before you are forced 10?
HARRY B. BRADFORD.