Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-12
JUDGE: HART WRITES
ON VACCINATION


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Editor Evening Bulletin Siri 1.-The
letter written for the
Advertiser was declined insertion by
its editor on the ground that II was
entirely at variance with the views
held by himself on the question OF
vaccination. May ask that You pub
lish It In the Bulletin. .b.t
,.l a, Yours obediently.
CHARLES +. HART.
Honolulu. Jan. II, 10.
'.'' Audi Alteran Psrtens. -
Editor Advertiser: In your issue
of the sth inst. under the heading,
Vaccination Problem" you say:
"Up to the time 81, the last
legislature there was coihpuls-f
DRY vaccination law on the Statute
books. but the usual fight was
started against IT,, and as a re-
suit II was wiped out and an
other law substituted which
makes It hard for the authorities
to protect the health of the chill.
dIen and OF the, community"
II. Sir. you desire the public to un.
derstand that the new law makes II
difficult to protect the health Of the
children and OF the community be.
cause of impediments It puts in the
was OF vaccinating children. then !
must say. your dictufh will appear to
many as incredible as the "quicunque
wilt" OF theology. That inoculating
the clean. healthy body Of child with
the excretions from running sores on
a sick calf, can possibly conduce to
the childs health, or to that of the
community IL. again say II. incred
ible. As to the business of such pro
cess preventing smallpox, let me speak
presently. Solons or not. the mem.
bers Of the last legislature only did
what the Mother of Parliaments before
them had done. for In 1907 compulsory
vaccination was done away with In
Great Britain. That majority OF
medical men think such legislation
worse than foolish, does not make Il
so. numbers Lave no special merit Of
themselves, unless they happen to be
on the side Of truth. Many learned
and thoughtful men. the world over
look upon the, whole story of Vaccina
tion from the days when Jenner was
fussing around the diseased teats OF
the Worcestershire dairy maids cows
even to these times. as an error that
has proved misleading and disastrous
beyond expression. Let II be remem
bered that. for eighty years after Nun
70. NJ. D., F. r. s., of Edinburgh. had
called attention to the wrongfulness OF
! venesection, the practice of bleeding
continued. and am old enough tC
have seei scores Of people depleted
Of their life's blood. Also II Is well tt
bear In mini that, incubation fol
smallpox was practiced with the full
approval OF the Medical Profession fol
100 years. II IL now prohibited by
Law and its practice punished as {
penal offense.
w. Scott Tebb. NJ. D., NJ. A.. (Can
tab). physician. and the son of I
physician, says. In his exhaustive
work "a Century OF Vaccination" y
403. I'm due course OF time the ira
diticn of the dairy maids of Gloucester
shire will take its proper place
among the legends and folklore OF tn,
past; and II allowed to prophesy.
cannot help thinking that another gen
GRAFTON will look back with amaze
ment and incredibly that for 100 year,
the people of Great Britain should
have worshipped at the shrine of .
strange. unreasonable and mischievou,
superstition"
DIR. Charles Creighton, who for hi,
| pre-eminent professionalism ant
scholarly abilities was chosen to write
the article on vaccination for En-
encyclopedia Britannica, says. the "anti
vaccinators have knocked the bottom
out OF grotesque superstition" Fur
ther says this accomplished physician
tho history of vaccination from 1t,
beginning to its present position is
refreshing illustration of the truth tina
medical science is human first an,
scientific afterwards"
DIR. Miller, an eminent physician O
Pittsburg. writing to Ebert Hubbard
says, vaccination is a crime
We must defeat the effort OF the maj
who would make sick an entire com
munity OF well people In the fear tina
| q small norton Of N NAV got otcL