The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-21

l As regards Leicester MT. J. T. Biggs summarized the important features o1 Leicester's recent smallpox history as 1 follows:
 of 1s92-3, 1903 and 1904, there has been an increasing number and proportion of .unvaccinated in the population. (2) The fatality from smallpox has declined in the same period from 5.s (s) The general death rate 1sas de- clined from about 19 per thousand in
 1ss2-3 to IA per thousand in 1sos-4. (D The fatality rate of the unvaccin- ated was only Is per cent, very much less than that which occurred about | the same period in much vaccinated towns.
 C5) Very few of the soooo to so.0oo unvaccinated children contracted small As the reporter of your lecture dealt only in general eulogy of your statis- tics it is not possible to prove their erroneous character in detail. I chal- lenge your criticism of those have above given. They can all be tested, and, being so tested, are verified by the returns of the Registrar General of England and Wales and the official reports of the same authority. of the Local Government Board (despite it's continual trickery to support vaccine tion), and of the Medical Officer Of Leicester. To all the world Leicester
  pertinent, demonstrating directly the
 uselessness of vaccination, and indi- rectly it's pernicious influence upon health and character. both of it's vic tirns and of those who employ 1t.
 After dealing in generalfties as above mentioned the euiogist of your lecture states: Next the speaker passed to consideration of the splendid works of mental importance in the extension of vaccination to other infectious dis cases. The latter statement is true in a certain sense, the former is abso- lutely without foundation
 I am not competent to pass any judgment upon Pasteur's work as a chemist, e. g., on his asserted discov- cry of the mode of growth of crystals; of his alleged biological discoveries are either erroneous or were distorted plagiarisms of the discoveries of oth- CTS, ought to induce chemists not mere Iy to examine Pasteur's chemical dis coveries but also to trace their his tory to see whether in this field also they may not have been plagiarized-
 Every one of Pasteur's preventive inoculation of the tubercle bacillus up on cattle has spread tuberculosis among healthy herds, as ordinary com mon sense would have predicated. His inoculations against anthrax left the animals inoculated more liable to that diseased condition. and caused the pre- mature death of many of them from other diseased condition. But Pas teur's anti-rabic inoculatfons afford the most decided test of the pernicious character of that method of treat ment.
 During twenty-three year preceding the use of the antf-rabic serum there were 685 deathsA from rabies in all France, or an average of 30 per an- mum. But since the use of the anti rabic inoculations the average has risen to 100 per annum, in place of 30. with a continually increasing number each year, so that according to the official returns the number of deaths from rabies in France for the year ending in June, 1907. was just about 300. In truth, as Professor Peter said, in his address to the Academy of Med icine, Paris. on the 11th of January. 1887, I'M. Pasteur does not cure rabies he imparts it!"
 I will now touch on the famous anti-t toxin treatment as a. preventive or cure for diphtheria. Here there is appar- ently an almost unanimous cry Of 'fHallelu5ah" by the disciples of Pas teur. All of them insist that the fa- tality rate of this ''dreadful' disease has been greatly lowered. Let us see if the facts bear out this assertion.
 The Japanese. while copying our civilization. have also copied our fol- presents a report on diphtheria anti toxin, in which the statement, com mon to seroDathiSts of Europe and America, was repeated by the officials of the Institute, that the fatality rate from diphtheria has been reduced from 52 to 2S per cent. of the cases: but more ingenious than European and American officials. on the very. op- posite page the Japanese Institute fur nishes a diagram, whereby means are given for testing the validity of this statement. While that diagram cer- tainly shows a fall from 52 per cent. in the fatality of diphtheria during the seven years preceding the use of anti toxin to 28 per cent. during a similar period under it's use the number of cases since the introduction of anti toxin has enormously increased as all so the number of deaths: so that the largest number of cases in pre-anti- toxin days (6100) is less than the smallest under it's use (S613). and in and this is an important fact. the