The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-26

| Amldon. Bradley, Potomac. Toner.
Grant, Cochrane, Weightman, Jackson,
Fillmore, Cooke. Abbot, Webster.
Average Age of Vaccination.
Of these 1000 children, 100 were vac
cinateC during the year 1909, and 800
during 1910, III were vaccinated at four
years Of aye, and $50 at five years and
/ over; Of the whole, about 700 were vac
cinated in their fifth year The chill
dreD vaccinated under four years Of
age were born abroad or OF foreign
! parentage, and too few IN number 70
| take under consideration.
These statistics prove that the aver
| age age for VaCcinating children in the
| District is about the fifth year. Now
| It should follow that If vaccination
were dangerous procedure and inOcula-
| ton Of the vaccine matter an actual i'm
plantation Of a grave disease IN the
! system, that shortly after vaccination
4 or within a logical period thereafter,
| some constant and well-dehned symp-
! toms Of the alleged Infection should be
present; that this horrible blood poison
Should exhibit some appreciable faint
whereby the physician could In some
! manner detect at least one case out u
/ the fifty. a hundred or one Thousand
| cases submitted for inspection. that
! disease asserted 70 be a grave cOnSti-
7 tCtiOnal malady should have some trait
or history other than q simple scar or
| m arm or leg.
| II should -5Ilow that a painstaking
| and conscientious inspection OF sew
| eral hundred children VacCindteC more
| than twelve months ago should reveal
] a dozen, a half dozen, or at least
( single Individual. eXt biting some
| trace or manifestation Of a disease
| accredited with SO many horrible Sc
| quels, that there should be examples
| Of impaired health following vaccina-
q h. - chi - a D. =
| to point out the victim, and finally
| that as a sesC't Of this wholesale
| poisoning there should be a decided
| increase Of mortality among those
| poisoned.
| Cannot Be Surpassed.
| Now, as a matter Of fact, among
| these thousand vaccinated children
not only was the Investigator unable
! to discover a single child suffering
/ frcm any apparent disease or infec-
| ton, or learn Of any pTpn in the
! school suffering from any disease or
! disability resulting from vaccination,
! but ne can cOnscientiousIy affirm
! excepting m occasional child suffer
/ ing from insufficient nutrition-that
! fer health, vigOr, and aleTtness these
I vaccinated children cannot be sur
passed by an equal number Of unvaC-
| cinated children on earth
Among the pupils OF the twenty-fOur
: schools visited the universal testi-
4 mony obtained was that. except for a
I day or two, and then only In severe
! cases, detentionEfrom school was rare.
/ That of the pupils latelE VaCclnated
| only three were undergoing the ordeal
| Occasioned by the after effects Of
/ Vaccination and detained from school
/ That In the experience Of the fifty or
more teachers Intercepted. none
! could recall a single case in which
( permanent disability had resulted
! from vaccination. That during the
{ u e A.
! had occurred among the children vac
| cinated and enrolled in 1909, and these
/ deaths were caused by diphtheria,
! meningitis, and scarlet fever
! Proof In Mortality Records.
J The introduction Of virulent poison
/ in the system Of children OF delicate
I age ought to materially increase NOR
tality among those infected. and. vac
! cinia being of this nature, mortality
should be very perceptible within a
! reasonable time after incubation. To
what extent this is true may be
! learned from the following statistics:
/ In the District Of Columbia, as else
where, children under five years Of age
are about equal in number to those
ranging from five 20 nine years OF age
! In 1903. according 20 the report Of the
! Health officer of the District among
the whites the number Of deaths under
five years of age, and consequently pre-
vious to the vaccination period, exclud-
| ing accidents, gastro-intestinal, and all
| other diseases Of early infancy, aggre-
gated 1913; among children from five to
nine years OF age. and consequently
during the vaccination period, the num-
! Der OF deaths, excluding accidents,
| numbered only Ihirty-twO.
| The charges coming from the same
| sources that vaccination is the prime
I cause Of tuberculosis can also be met
= by the mortality returns Of the same
year, the report OF the Health Office
! for 1908 showing that among the white
population deaths from tuberculosis
/ were seven and a half times greater
under the age Of vaccination than the
! five-year period afterward- That vacci-
nation spreads smallpox is also demol-
ished by the fact that the number Of
! cases of smallpox in the District pre-
vious to the vaccination period number
| ed twenty-siX while those occurring
! afterward. or between the age period Of
! five and ten years, numbered twenty
one.
Two Deaths From Vaccination.
| In the registration area Of the United
States covering about So per cent Of it's
population, or about 100000 of peo-