The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-11
THIS WOMAN BELIEVES IN
 VACCINATION
Editor Bridgeport Farmer:

Editor Bridgeport Farmer:
 Dear Sir-Recently. I had occasion to visit my sister in Bridgeport. I was very much surprised to find in that city of progressiveness and en- llghtenment some opposition to vacci nation, as a preventive of smallpox. My attention was called to communi- cations printed in some of the daily papers and the statements contained therein were so far from the truth that they amused me. Evidently, prac- t1cal experience with smallpox and vaccination has not been a part of the. education of your anti-vaccinationists
 My husband is missionary, and for fifteen years T was with him in In- dia and elsewhere, where I saw hum dreds of cases of smallpox, saw Vil- lage after village destroyed. literally wiped out by 1t. The loathsomeness scourges that I have witnessed would convert the most unreasoning opposer of vaccination. I have never known a sane person that has had opportun- 1ty to witness the ravages of the dis ease as 1t exists where vaccination is unknown. that did not endorse vacci- nation in the heartiest terms. Vacci- nation has so thoroughly wiped out the disease in America that the insig- n1ficant epidemics which occasionally do occur, where health laws are lax, are as nothing compared with the dis ease as seen in the Far East.
 In a. boarding school in India, boy who had not been vaccinated, went to his home in the jungle for his Christ mas vacation. Shortly after his re- turn, he developed violent case of continent smallpox. He slept in the whom were yaccinated, and not one of them took the disease. I cared for him daily. amounting him, and in va rious ways ministering to his wants, and I did not contract the disease, as 1 was also vaccinated
 In another school, a very beautiful young lady declined to be vaccinated, contracted smallpox. was extremely i'll, and although she recovered. was dis figured for life. Her striking beauty was replaced by a most repulsive and uns1ghtly appearance.
 On another occasion, two hundred pupils in school were exposed to smallpox. They were vaccinated, and but two out of the number took the disease. They were not confined to bed and not disfigured. Absolute pre- vention in 99 per cent. and mitigation in l per cent.
 I could recite experience after ex- pertence of the most convincing kind in favor of vaccination, and have never seen a case of harm from it.
 NO one WnO mas traVeleQ through India can escape the profound impress sion made by the deserted villages. When the disease settles upon town, the few who are not exterminated by it. break down their houses, burn their clothes and depart to a distant place.
 I wish to emphasize the great ne- cessity for vaccination, for without it I believe that this country would be as subject to smallpox as some dis tricts of India or any country where vaccination is not practfced.
 My only interest in vaccination is the welfare of mankind and am writ ing this communication in the belief that the testimony of one who has had years of practical experience with both smallpox and vaccination will have as much weight with fair minded people as the statements of those who apparently know nothing of the sub ject.
 Very truly yours.
 MARGARET A. GUERNSEY,
 Sunset Cottage,
 Haywood. N. J.
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