The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-20
Intrepid Foe of Compulsory Vaccination Has a Word to Say of Modern Method Of
 Dealing With Tuberculosis.
Recalls That Safe and Sane Treatment of Half Gen. tury Ago Which Appears to be Much in Vogue Now With Medical Practitioners==Ihe Persecution of a School Teacher by Health Board.

I In the Bridgeport Farmers issue Of ! April 14th a communication from pr.
 c. N. Haskell arrested my attention.
 It surely was interesting reading, and
 it gives me great pleasure to learn of | the wonderful work he, and some of ! his co-laborers are doing and hope to | do (provided they can work up a pop
 u1ar scare large enough, and sure 1 enough to make a confiding and sym pathetic public cough up, or collect sufficient funds to make it worth their while).
 If these medical gentlemen really wished to accomplish the end they claim, of rendering assistance to the poor afflicted victims of the plague | of modern civilization; wasn't it a strange way to preface the work by authorizing this same Dr. Haskell to go before the Board of Education, and attempt to justify the compulsory vac- cination of school children, when that abominable practice has been abund- antly proven to be one of the greatest causes of sowing the seeds of tuber- culoSiS direct, and at the same time lowering the vitality of the race, and diminishing the power of resisting other diseases.
 There has been some little agita- tion in New York city recently about the crueltieS inflicted upon animals III the name OI VlN1SeCtlOH, put I0ilOW citizens will you kindly sit up and take notice that at the International Tuberculosis Congress lately held in Washington, D. C., these supposedly their serum theories with animals: but must have nine little children for their murderouS experiments
 A delegation as follows: Dr.Acker, Dr. Henry G. Reyer, Dr. Kober and Dr. D. Laszio Detre, professor of bac- teriology at the University of Buda- pest, representing Austria at the con- gress, acted as jury. Three inocu- 1ations' were made on each child, which, the discoverer said was neces- trated old tuberculin; fiItrate of a cul- ture of human tubercle bacilli, and fil- trate of bovine culture. The name of this new discovery is, "differential cutaneous reaction.'' After the ap- pointed time, the jury calmly an nounced how many were afflicted with human and how many with bovine tu- bercu1osis. The Lord help the poor children now, one else can. Do I hear any father or mother censuring the parents uf those chil- dren for consenting to such wicked ness? Bless you what is the use of bothering about parents. They just went over to the Chi1dren's hospital, 18th and W streets Northwest,for sub jects. pr. J. P. c. Foster, chairman of the Connecticut state commission, us m the IeleR1dm that ne has a letter from an eminent medical man who writes that "the whole coun- try is looking to Connecticut in this natter
 New Haven county requested the LegislatuI to appropriate S25,OOO for their use. Eight counties in Connec- ticut. $25,000 by equals S20O,O00.
 Dear eminent medical man, wher- ever you are, don't hold your breath until our Hartford law makers vote lx ;@ dangerous to your health; your death certificate would surely have engraved thereon heart failure. If Connecticut. tax payers prove to be such "easy marks the doctors will be obliged to take their modest little appropriation in installments.
 remember some 40 years ago this same medical fraternity had a sure cure for consumption, and patients were doSed with creoSote until their friends were unable to approach them and keep their noses level: but no cures resulted.
 Next they struck a new lead with cod liver oil, and fooled themselves and the people for some time. but still no cures. Then the great and only Koch 1oomed above the horizon and almost saved them from utter de- feat, with his benign elixir known as tuberculin.
 The professional star began to as- cend. furnishing a new field for hum bugging the poor unfortunates who look to them for he1p- Dr. Koch him self acknowledged that he had failed in discovering the sure cure. No won der the reporters who sought to in terview the great man as he boarded the steamer for home were answered with a shrug of the shoulders and a wise silence.
 He had listened to the plan of uni- form legislation in all. the states, prac- tically compelling the erection of tu- berculosis sanitariums in every coun- ty; handed over to the control of po- litica1 doctors.
 The only hopeful treatment for tu- berculosis, hygienic living, was discov- cred over 50 years ago by careful stu dents of Dame Natures laws; now public health step into the arena shouting Eureka. We have found it. Claiming all the credit for themselves.
 Dr. Lyman, medical expert in charge of Gaylord Farm. states in the Morn ing Telegram, February 23, 1909, third page, fifth column, that patients ap- piled there for admission and were refused because they were in advanc- ed stages of the disease. No place where they can be sent. and all the time they are growing less able to sup port themselves.
 Tax payers well before these institutions are organized, and see that the entire nagement is not placed into the hands of such men as those referred to in the following ar ticle in the Columbus Medical Jour nal, for April. 1909:
 MAJOR JAMES BOUDREN HEALTH BOARD PROSECUTIONS
 Hattie B. Stanley, aged 26, lifelong resident of Charlton Lucas county Iowa, has been engaged in teaching in the public schools of that place during most of the years of her maturity. Duly re-employed by the school board, last summer, she entered upon her school year during the early days of September. Two weeks later the Mayor of the city, purporting to act health of ficer, at the instigation of parties un- known, and without any complaint up- on the part of the school board, noti- fled her to relinquish her position until investigation could be had as to whether she was afflicted with the dis ease of tuberculosis.
 She complied with the terms of the rIay,aff tod <<x<