The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-12
MANY CASES OF SMALL POx
 IN LONDON
But It Appears that Great Majority of Sufferers W ere
 Vaccinated
Major Boudren Receives In formation from London Correspondent Conveying the Facts from Official Sources.

Major Thomas Boudren, the recent candidate for representative on the Republican ticket, a veteran Of the civil war and the opponent of vaccin- ation, to-day issued the following, relative to the epidemic of small pox in London. He says:
 "Will you kindly print for the en- lightenment of my friends of the med icaI fraternity the interesting facts contained in the following letter. regret that I did not receive 1t ear Her so that my friend, pr. Haskell could have embodied it in his late pamphlet on vaccination and small poX."
 The letter referred to follows:
 London. March 30, 1911. Dear Major Boudren:
 All England is laughing at the doc tors whose claims in support of vac cination have been utterly shattered by the evidence growing out of an ep- idemic of smallpox which recently broke out here.
 Jan. 2S, Annie Levy of Key St.. was taken i'll. Feb. and she was treated in the receiving room of the London Hospital. She was thought to be suffering with chicken pox. On Feb. she was removed to the Mile End Infirmary, a workhouSe hospital, in an ambulance and taken into gen. eral ward where there were sixty women and children. She was ex- amined by various medical officers and pronounced dangerously ill, but her true condition was not recognized until Feb. 20th when two other pa tients in the ward developed small pox
 D. l.. Thomas, the medical officer of health for the Borough of Stepney, in which the hospital is located.
 The girl had been vaccinated. The home of Annie Levy was visited and several members of her family, also vaccinated. were discovered suffering with the disease and were removed to the smallpox hospital.
 From the 21st of January to March 9th. 1911, fifty-two cases were receiv- ed at the South Wharf Smallpox Hos pital. Seven of the cases were of persons employed at the Mile End h. frmary, five nurses and two scrub bers, all vaccinated except one. Of the total number of cases thirty-s1x were vaccinated and thirteen were unvaccinated and three in doubt.
 Ten died. The death rate was un- usually. large although the disease those who died were patients in the Infirmary with one exception and their constitutions were weak anC they were afflicted with disease.
 These facts are taken from the re- ply of MT. Burns. head of the local Government Board, to a question ask Cooper, and from the reply of Lord Doneraile, chairman of the statisti- cal committee to MT. Beurle.
 The fact that the great majority of cases had been vaccinated, including the first case, and all but one of the five nurses, has dealt staggering blow to the pretensions of the Jen- nerians. The effect of the blow may be judged from the paragraph, taken from an article in the Medical Press March 9th:
 'The foolish newspapers who think they know better than the medicai profession, are growing because of the first fifty persons attacked by small pox only few were unvaccinated Their conclusion that vaccination has therefore failed is mere cracking of thorns under pot. Medicine does not claim that vaccination prevents people catching smallpox. It mere ly states as an ascertained fact that the risks of severity of attack and oi death are thereby vastly reduced, pos. sibly by 80 to 90 per cent"
 Thus, my dear Major we find these doctors still bound by their supersti tion, impregnable to evidence, or al | least unwilling to admit that the com mon sense of the laity has again de tected them in the midst of folk more disastrous than their practice more strange that they should now assert the efficiency of the dirty rite of vaccination than that they once denied the circulation of the blood Medicine is the offspring of wizardr, and magic. It has ever preferred tC