The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-01
VACCINATION-1

of the committee on Public Health AND
Safety in Hartford, Thursday, as par
| of the case of the Observation-Disclosures
against compulsory vaccination. The
lcommittee heard the address with
| careful attention and it evidently made
a deep impression upon the members:
| Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee-While consider it a priv
| 1lege, yet 1t seems hardly necessary
| to say much against compulsory vac
| cinatior as it now stands on our stat
lutte books, to secure your favorable
reconsideration of the measure introduce
\ ed for its removal.
The efficacy of vaccination as a pro-
phylactic preventive measure against
smallpox is a matter of wider and
! more extensive difference of opinion
among physicians than most persons
pose to villify those who have the God
given right to differ honestly and sin
cerely with me. But when it comes
to forcing that difference to the extent
Of poisoning members of my family,
under an assumption have personally
proved false and dangerous. it ceases
to be a matter of privilege, and am
bound by all the laws of humanity and
justice to demonstrate and protect my
household in every honest, honorable
and reasonable effort to that end.
Those who advocate compulsory vac
cination say so many mean and I'M
complimentary things about those who
differ with them, that I do desire to
say. to you in all seriousness that we
are perfectly willing to be weighed in
the balance with them in so far as
true manhood, mentality, morality, hui
manity and demonstrated professional
abilities are concerned. We may "be
blatant ignoramuses and unpr1nc1pled
cranks,'' but we are far too humane
tartan, sirs, to permit any depletion of
their gray matter through VACCINE ton
or otherwise, that our brains may be
fertilized therefrom and thereby. We
are willing to argue. we are willing to
debate, we are willing to discuss the
question fairly and squarely upon its
merits, before the people and let the
people decide, but they will never come
out and meet us before the supreme
and most interested tribunal. AS
previously stated, among those of us
who are devoting our lives to the relief
of suffering humanity (for financial
consideration there Is a wide differ
nation. And right here permit me to
call your attention to fact that
should carry great weight in the con-
sideration of this question, which is
that all anti-compulsory vaccination
lists, and Observation-Disclosures were like
our opponents educated to believe in
it, but that we have arrived at our
present convictions concerning 1t
through observation, investigation, and
that most convincing of all arguments
our actual personal experience.
We are on the right side Of this
question, we are actuated by the most
unselfish interests and the purest
motives, and we come to you with our
reason, our Judgment, and our expert
ence. We do not come to you under
a shadow Of theoretical phantasies.
visionary suggestions and pseudo
scientific speculations on a foundation
of made over to order statistics. but
my friends, we came to you loaded
with indfsputables evidence, undeniable
facts and unmistakable truths founded
on years of professional experience.
Three or four years since, DR.. G. S.
Carr, a regularly graduated and Ii
censed physician and a most excellent
Christian gentleman, was publishing
medical magazine in Ohio, and upon
his solicitation number of physicians
placed themselves on record on the
vaccination question. I will read you
what he says concerning them, and
there is not a man among profession
or laity personally acquainted with
him who would cast the slightest
doubt upon his statements. There are
over. 400 names in this little book and
DIR. Carr says:
fact that every one of these quota
lions are from recent letters received
from practicing physicians in good
standing. every one of whom is reg
authorized by the State Board of Ex-
aminers where he resides.
These doctors are from the East
and West, from the North and South.
They are graduates from medical col
leges of all schools and grades. Their
names may be found in Folks Medical
Register. and we have on file the auto
graph letters from which every quota
ton has been taken"
Here is what some of the medical
profession say on the subject:
M. P. Chamberlin, M. D., 50 Cayuga
ST.. Santa Cruz. Calif.-'T am abso-
lutely opposed to vaccination now, and
have been for the last thirty years. I
believe it is frequently dangerous, both
primarily and secondarily.'
L. E. Cross NJ. D.; AZ E. Main ST.,
Stockton, Calif.-"I am opposed to
vaccination Have seen
bad results from vaccination, immed-
lately and later. In my family pre-
fer smallpox to vaccination. Am UNI
myself. have treated it,
and slept with it, had it twice in my
own family, and never took the dis
ease. Practiced over thirty years"
D. Dalbert Hitler, NJ D., 1919 Suffer
St., San Francisco. Calif.-'T do not
believe that cowpox will prevent small |
pox. If vaccination is an absolute
preventive, smallpox should, by this
time, have been thing of the past, /
wholly eliminated from the world, or
at least from that portion of it inhab- |
tied by vaccinating peoples. Vacci- |
nation should never be compulsory |
among all the people. believe it is |
dangerous Immediately. My conclu- |
sions are based on both study and
actual personal experience, in fifty |
years of practice"
c. NJ. Morford, NJ. D., Toledo, Iowa.
81 do not believe that vaccination pro- |
tects any one from smallpox. 1 do |
not believe that vaccinationf should be
made compulsory, nor do I believe that |
children should be compelled to be vac
cinated under penalty of expulsion
from school. believe vaccination is
I know that constitutional
diseases, such as scrofula, eczema,
syphilis, and consumption are liable
to be conveyed by vaccination. I do
not believe that blood poisoning, te-
tanus, and assesses can with any
be avoided in cases of vacci-
nation. 1 have no time for vaccina-
ton in any form and firmly believe it
to be a potent cause of cancer
Samuel Worcester, NJ. D., Portland,
Net do not believe that children
should be compelled to be vaccinated
under penalty of expulsion from school.
believe vaccination is dangerous. I
nave seen many cases where lifelong
lis have been caused by vaccination.
Nv conclusions are based on nPrSnnal