The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03

oAu OudI1uS CIOSS hospitals, AOn-
don, has to say on this subject.
DR.. E. Gleitsmann, of Chicago,
says: "I believe that vaccination
should be made compulsory among
all the people who manufacture the
stuff, and advocate this poisoning.
The rest of mankind should be ex-
cepted" And DR.. John Storer, of
the same city, declares: eve
should see how long the practice
would be in vogue, were there no
remuneration back of it"
Germany, the country to which all
votaries of vaccination point with ar.
gumentative tinality, furnishes some
very contrary statistics. The Ger
man Army is vaccinated to man,
not only once but repeatedly; and
yet in 1871, when the soldiers re-
turned from France, there was an
epidemic of smallpox among them.
DR.. G. M. Morford, of Toledo,
Iowa, says of vaccination: "I firm
1y believe it to be a potent cause of
cancer" And Dr. w. S. Thompson,
of Augusta, Maine, writes: IT have
lost many fee by giving voice to
my opinions, when patients have
called to be vaccinated.'
With large following of the med
ical profession, the practice of vac
cination is nothing more nor less
than a matter of acceptance, and not
the result of individual research and
Investigation, nor of experiment, for
numbers of them have had little or
no experience with smallpox This
refers to city physicians as we'll as to
those in the country.
DR.. e. Richards, of Kansas City,
says: What we need is less vacci-
nation, and more sanitation" And
this is the keynote. Properly con-
Quoted and rigidly enforced sanitary
and quarantine regulations are all
that will ever check smallpox. DR..
Edwin R. Heath, also of Kansas City,
declares: II have had much expert
ence with smallpox, and I have dis
carded vaccination" And from DR..
w. r. Sanders, Derry, N. H., we
have: "Any man who will vaccinate
an innocent, healthy child is men
ace to public safety
Statistics tell us that in 1904,
when the practice of vaccination was
receiving it's most vigorous impetus.
and during the epidemic of smallpox
in Marseilles, 1900 who had been
previously vaccinated, had the disc
ease. In America, when compulsory
vaccination has been resorted to, it
has usually occurred at about the end
of the smallpox period (Which is the
winter season. and at a time when
the natural course of such an cpl
demic is about completed; and vac
cinatiOn has been unduly credited
with checking the disease Numbers
of American cities which once i'm
posed vaccination have discontinued
it absolutely, as have also many
States which once required it in the
schools.
The recent wholesale act of the
city authorities of Atlanta is unwor-
thy a representative municipal body;
and the attempted enforcement of
this unjust law on the part of the
a fine of $500 upon weak woman
who declined to be made victim,
is the arbitrary abuse of a fancied
power. In the first place, the law
is unconstitutional according to ex-
cellent legal opinion, the first prin-
cipal for which American liberty
stands having been violated. In the
second place, a human regard, on the
part of municipal heads, for the well
fare Of the governed, should deter
the governing power from inf1icting
upon $4,000 people the ills and dan
gers of vaccination, when not more