Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-01

ner inoculated a woman, milk maid
named Sarah Nelms with part of the
serum or pus from one OF these seres
from COW. 1t went the usual course.
Al about the eighth or tenth day he
TOOK from this same sore and inoculat-
ed Into the arm of boy about years
old, by the name of James Phipps. This
produced the usual sore that no doubt
many of you are acquainted with, 1f
vaccination. And some months later this
same boy was inoculated with the 9us
from smallpox pustule. without ct-
feet, Sarah Nelms was inoculated alsn
without effect. Jenner vaccinated, rs
he called 1t. his own children, himself.
his wife with material from cowpox.
1t ran the usual course. They We're
afterwards all OF them inoculated di-
rectly with pus from smallpox pustules
without effect
1t was these series of experiments
that prompted Jcnner to write tha-
first book upon the subject, AN In
quiry Into the Causes and Effects of a
Disease Prevalent in the Western
Counties of England, Known as Cow
poX or Vaccinia." In this work he told
OF his experiments. and he advocated
the use of this means to prevent small
poX OF course, like any new theory
in the world 1t caused great hubbub.
The people of England were really hp
in arms against the idea that 1t should
be used or should be enforced as d
means of preventing it, as was adNo-
Gated at this time.
Vaccination was first introduced lnto
of Harvard. in May of $500
1t was in August. 1902, thai
in the city of Boston this man,
Benjamin Watorhousc, noculated 19
boys with the virus or pus from COW
pox. In November following he took
eight of these boys and inoculated them
with the pus from a pustule OF small
pox in exactly the same way that he
had inoculated them with this virus
from smallpox At the same time iwo
boys who had not been inoculated with
cowpoX were inoculatcd with the small
poX virus, Just as the eight boys were
These eight boys were free from et-
fects whatever from this second inocu-
lation. The two boys developed small
pox from IT. Then the whole 10 boys
that had been inoculatcd first were in
oculated from the pus from the poX
of these two boys that took the small
pox, without effect at all Those cX-
perimcnts caused the health board ot
the state of Massachusetts to declare
that vaccination was a perfect preVen-
tive of smallpox. and advocated law
making It compulsory in that state
COMPETENT JUDGES.
Now, there are no people In the world
who are so competent to judge of
whether is is good or bad as physicians,
because they deal with that subject.
They see more cases of results. lhey
perhaps understand the cause and et-
fectS of these things better than one
who has not had either experience OF
the training in those lines
Now. l want to give you Just rev
figures on this line which | took the
trouble 10 write down. We can com
pare various countries in their attitude
toward vaccination, and its results IN
the prevention of smallpox. The coun-
try which is perhaps best protected
against smallpox Is Germany. Germany
has a compulsory vaccination law,
They don't regard there what they eau
conscientious scruplcs against compul-
sorry vaccination A conscience Is a
very excellent thing, but 1t can't be
measured scientifically like disease In
Germany they do not consider con-
scIous scruples, 80 they vaccinate there
everybody. They vaccinate and re-
vaccinate their soldiers frequently,
every year or two, and since 1914 there
has been but one death in the German
army from smallpox, where all the
people are vaccinated. From 1889 TO
1893 there were only 512 cases oil small
pox In all of Germany during those
four years.
Let us compare Germany with Bel
GUM, which country has no compul-
sorry vaccination law. During those
same years, from 1889 to 1893, during
those four years. you know they are
nelghboring countries. an epidemic in
one like smallpox would be apt to be
an epidemic in the other, that the
means of communication. of travel nov
is so perfect that disease can be car
ried may be carried long distances In
a short time So during these four
years in Belgium there were-just a
moment, let me give you the compar-
ative figures the percentages; that In
Germany this number of cases would
amount to % individuals per million
inhabitants; that out of ten millions,
there would be % people having small
pox only, during that whole time. In
Belgium, where they had non-com-
pulsory law, during the same years
there were 252 inhabitants per million
having smallpox during the same time,
that is, out of every ten million there
would be then 2.520 people having
smallpox, compared with % for Ger
many. During these same years in
Austria there were 1888 per million
where there is no compulsory Nacclna-
ton law In Russia there were 1854.
per million. or 1854 per ten million in
habitants during these same years
Also there there Is no compulsory vac
cinatlon law Those are statistics that
are compiled under the supervision of
the state they are reliable, and II is
only upon investigation of large num-
hers of cases that we are able TO draw
definite and accurate conclusions of
the value of any means or measure
ENGLISH STATISTICS.
Again, let me read to you some Eng
lish statistics also. l Will read you
lust a little from the report of an Eng
lish commission appointed some years
ago to Investigate smallpox and vac
cinatIon. There were in the first place
1904 cases of smallpox occurring In
England and Wales from 1885 to 1871
Now of these 1904 cases there were
217 per cent of those during that time
which claimed they had been vaccinat-
cd but there was no scar to show that
they had been Vaccinated. Now many
people are inoculated that is, undergo
the process OF vaccination, but 1t
doesn't take, as the saying goes. or
course they have not been vaccinated-
Vaccination means not only the inocu-
lation with the virus, but that 1t shall
take, that 1t shall produce the effect
| that is intended for 1t to produce. So
| these people no doubt had been vac
oInated in that first sense; they had
| becn inoculated with this virus but II
! didn't take; they had no scar to show
| that they had ever been vaccinated.
So about 21.7 per cent had no scars;
- e.rt of tbeqe ppoplc had