The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-11
MAJOR B0UDREN GETS LETTER ON
 VACCINATION

VACCINATION To The Editor of the Farmer, Sir:- I have received the following com munication, which I transmit, in the hope that the Farmer will print if, for the information it contains rela- tive to the pernicious practice of vac- cination.
 Dear Maior:-
 We have had some very interesting experiences lately in this section and as I have not written you in a long time I thought you would be pleased to hear from me.
 The Health Officer in this neighbor- hood got onto his annual rampage and felt impelled to do something to earn his salary. The first case he struck in his search was one Mary Ann Smith with her apron full of potatoes with each potato eyes full of all sorts of germs. Typhoid, Tuberculosis and Smallpox germs enough to poison the whole section about here, and he Quarantined her at once.
 The next case was that of John Brown who had a brown taste in his mouth and of course he was dan gerous person and had to be quaran- tined.
 Miss Sally Jones was caught red leg ged with her pocket book in her stock ing on her milk leg. In both of them were seen moving all sorts of Typhoid germs and other dangerous bugs which would infect the community.
 The result in her case, after windy consultation, was that it was decided, in order to prevent an epidemic or Typhoid or Tuberculosis, it would be necessary to remove the money from her pocketbook and pasteurize her milk leg and by So doing prevent the spread of an epidemic.
 For fear you may think the above story a fable I wilk give you a case of actual occurrence as published in a Washington, D. c. paper.
 It was not told who the investiga- tors were, or whether they were on a wet or dry diet, but the meat of the wild and wooly yarn was,-that a woman milked in dairy in a near by town, who had an attack Of ty- phoid fever eighteen years ago, was found on the job daily running a virile typhoid bacillus factory with out license, and at the rate she was manufacturing them it would not be long before the whole country would be depopulated by this dreaded disease.
 The funny part of this story is that the lady was and is in excellent health. How thankful we should be that we are under the care of such a Ddt6rndl GOV0rnIneHI.
 But we may be assured that while the great Poohbah of the medical pro- fession who now presides over the health destinies of the American peo- pie in Washington we need have no fears.
 Whenever there is any danger to the public all he has to do is to turn loose his wind factory at the Capltoi to quiet all our fears.
 aSSI1ranca that we have rom that quarter,-that all is we'll, have no fear while I am at the helm should calm the most fearful.
 Do they not tell us that they have wiped out Cholera and Smallpox In the Philippines, and as soon as they can perfect the new squirt gun which they are now trying to perfect, they will be able to clear the atmosphere of every kind of deleterious varmint.
 And more particularly if they suc- ceed in fooling Congress into press ing a bill to create a public Health Bureau and give the control or 1t to some high cockalorum of the medl- cal profession who knows nothing Of Gods or Natures laws except as they are manifested through the medium of bugs as exploited by the new sci ence of Bugology.
 Now Major, I have a friend by the name of McCarty, who has seven chll- III. H town and he wishes to send his ch1l- dren to school, but, according to the rule of our Board of Education he must submit to having their blood poisoned and take all the chances of one or more of them dying from lock- jaw, as some forty or fifty others have died during the past year as you can see by the papers.
 Now the town where McCarty came from the people were a christian and civilized people, and supposed we were the same and he is terribly wor- ried.
 McCarty is a great reader and he business and before he submits his children to the poison monger he would like to have them answer the following questions and he refers them to me but I must confess, Major, that it is beyond me.
 Maybe you can help me ana so re- lieve NcCarty's mind. If you can- not answer them, you might get one of your very able men, who appear ed before the Board of Education in your town to do so for you.
 I believe there was one very aDIe doctor by the name of Haskell, who assured the Board that a healthy un- yaccinated child was as much men ace to the public health as one with a. contagious disease. It seems to me a fellow as wise as that could give McCarty the information he wants.
 Perhaps your good friend of the Farmer might persuade this Dr. Has kell to do the job for them if not for you. If the Farmer prints his an- swer please send sme a copy of the paper.
 What is smallpox; it's nature and cause?
 2-What is cow-pox; its nature and cause?
 S-what is vaccine virus?
 4-What is the rationale of the practice. that is, how does vaccina- tion prevent smallpox?
 5-How long does vaccination, if sssuccessful'' confer immunity against attacks of smallpox?
 6-Who can be safely vaccinated. and how can the safety of undergoing the operation be predetermined?
 What guarantee can be given that evil effects or untoward results, even death, will not follow as the re- suit of vaccination?
 8-What danger is there of a vac- cinated and duly protected person ever taking the smallpox from an unvaccinated and otherwise healthy persona
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