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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

On page II of this same official re-
port, under the sub-caption of School
Infection Dr. Willard says:
In view of the fact that over eighty
per cent probably nearly ninety per
cent) of the children attending the pub
lie elementary schools in Leicester have
never been vaccinated, and that school
attendance. as is well known, provides
very favorable conditions for the spread
of infection, it was certainly TO have
been expected that considerable spread
of the disease would have occurred
amongst children infected at school.
Fortunately. however, such was not the
case. 1t viii be recollected." adds DR..
Willard, that in the 1903 epidemic
There was also surprisingly little infec-
ton through the medium of schools On
the other hand, great spread took place
through the medium of slight cases
which had escaped detection, and such
cases usually occurred in vaccinated
subjects"
44AC
From the above Official statement Of
a defender of vaccination it Is obvious
that the vaecinated, not the unvaccin-
ated. constituted the real element of
danger in the spread of smallpox. Here
We have the recorded admission of an
unflinching defender of Jennerism that
vaccination utterly defeated the prin-
cipal object it had intended to accom-
plish. namely, the prevention of small
poX infection. In view of such testi-
mony as this from the pen of a partisan
of vaccination, what respect can intelli
gent people have for the ignorant and
absurd dictum of the Jenner-bigots that
IAN unvaccinated school pupil is a focus
of infection and menace to the public
health ?"
These experiences, which are about
the same in both the Leicester epidemics
which occurred long after vaccination
had been abandoned, conelusively prove
the aibsurlity of the pretense than ~an
unvaccinated child is a focus of infee-
ton or menace to the community in
which he resides" That vaccinated
subjects constituted the principal ele-
ment of danger and were the real foei
of infection in both the aforementioned
epidemics of smallpox is thus frankly
attested by a staumsh advocate of the
.Jennerian rite in his official reports as
Medical Officer OF Health of Leicester.
As a Characteristic specimen OF the
wild and haPhazard assertions of the
medical promoters of Jenner's quacll-
i 1 I'll
from classical work entitled Vital
Statistics, by Chas. Pearce, NJ. D., NJ.
CIR. s.:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

born in Leicester were vaccinaJed. DR..
Willard says: The last census taken
showed that there were over eighty
thousand unvaccinated people in Leices-
ter, consisting principally of children
and young adults" In accordance with
the Jennerian doctrine that the vaccinal
condition of a community is the pre-
dominant factor in determining the in
cidence of smallpox and the severity Of
the disease, prophesies have been freely
and confidently made as TO the disas-
trOus consequences which would surely
and speedily follow on what the late
Dr. Ernest Hart called Leicester's "gi-
gantic experiment.
Retribution in rhe shape OF dire cpl
demic and a terrible massacre" espe-
cially of the children, has been repeat
edly and blatantly prognosticated by
the wise wigs OF old school physic; but
up TO the present time these grave prog
nostications have not only all been I'M
fulfilled, but on the contrary Leicester,
since having thrown off the eow-pox
yoke, has enjoyed a phenomenal i'm
munity from small pox unequalled and
unapproached by any we'll vaccinated
municipality of it's approximate size in
the world
On page s of mis-. official Report on
the Smallpox Epidemic of Leicester in
1904" DR.. Willard says:
Probably the most noteworthy fea-
ture of the epidemic was the very mild
type of the disease as evidenced by its
remarkably low fatality, only four cases
proving fatal, which is equivalent to a
fatality on 321 cases of Ony 1.24 per cent.
Such record is, l believe, almost
unique However, one of the four fatal
cases was an imported one-the child
of tramp-which was not infected in
Leicester. merely happening to sicken
with the disease whilst passing through
the town. Such a small loss of life"
observes Dr. Willard, ''is of course very
satisfactory and is all the more remark
able as occurring in Leicester, where
such a large proportion of the popula-
ton is unVaccinated
Think of a case-fatahty from cpl
demic smallpox of less than one per
cent in a populous town which had re-
pudiated Jenner's quack -nostrum more
than quarter of a century previously
and has persistently rejected it ever
sincei
When the smallpox epidemic of 1904
struck Leicester, had it been a we'll
vaccinated borough as it was in 1871,
when ninety-five per cent of the births
were cow-poxed, what high-sounding
iencomiums would have been lavished
upon the memory of the immortal
Jenner and his great 'life-saving dis
covery.'
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

poor and rich alike, the toilers, the .iris-
tocrats and the municipal authorities,
began TO refuse vaccination for. their
children and themselves. This refusal
continued until 1890. when. instead of
ninety-five per cent, the vaccination
reached only about five per cent of the
total births. As evidence of the rapidity
with which vaccination fell off, it may
be stated that of the children born in
Leicester during the eight years ending
in 1895, only three per cent were vac
einated, as is shown by the official rec
ords. As this ominOus decrease of vac
cination went steadily on despite the
compulsory vaccination acts. the pro-
vaeeinists gravely prophesied again and
again that once smallpox contagion
gained entrance to this unvaccinated
municipality with its great mass of
highly inflamable material" the dread
disease" would spread through the town
like wild-fire on prairie and would
surely "decimate' the population But
alas for medical precedence and profess
sional wisdom. The dire predictions of
the boomers of DR.. Jenner's quack nos
trum failed of fulfillment..
Sman-po has been introduced into
unvaccinated Leicester again and again,
but it has never spread beyond a few
mild cases, and from the day she aban-
doned vaccination to this, no other
town in the British Kingdom, of ap
proximately equal population, has had
so low mortality from smallpox as
has this almost completely unvaccinated
and, as the pollutionists contend, ''un-
protected" population. From the time
at which vaccination was first aban-
doned to the present, the annual death
rate from all causes in Leicester has
fallen from about twenty per thousand
in the five years ending in 1875. to
about fourteen per thousand in the five
years ending in 1906.
The official Report on the Health of
Leicester for 1909 gives the general
death rate for that year as 1913.
The very high standard of public
health attained by unvacoinated Leices-
ter since her declaration of independ-
ence,' and the failure Of smallpox when
introduced into the borough by unvac-
cinated tramps to make any serious
Roadway among the unvaccinated deni-
zens, together with the extreme mild
ness of the few cases of smallpox which
did occur among the unvaccinated,
proved to a demonstration the utter
uselessness of vaccination as a proven
tive of smallpox.
Although, as heretofore stated, it has
been for many years predicted by the
vaccine hypothesis that the introduc-
ton of a case or two of small-pox into
unvaccinated Leicester would operate
like "a spark in powder magazine"
and an overwhelming calamity would
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

q STEREOTYPED assertion which
"a Is in frequent requisitlon with
4 doctors addicted TO the vaccine
practice and its emoluments is that
.'vaccination prevents smallpox; moth
ing else does" In the following pages
I propose to prove that both these as
seTtions falsify the facts.
The assertion that vaccination pre-
vents smallpox is an assumption; that
smallpox has been prevented without
resort TO vaccination is fact. That
smallpox can be readily and effectively
controlled and its spread in populous
municipality prevented without recourse
II preventive" vaccination has been
clearly and repeatedly demonstrated on
a large scale for a long period of time
in the town of Leicester, England
The big manufacturing town OF Lei
cester. with her resident population OF
$50 600 denizens. affords most conclu-
sive proof of the utter uselessness and
the actual RIGHTEOUSNESS OF so-calied
protective" vaccination.
The experience Of Leicester has fur
uisheI evidence so convincing and so
conclusive against vaccination that vac
chatting doctors, health board officials
and vaccine manufacturers carefully
avoid dealing with it except to prophesy
evils fer Leicester which have never
come TO pass
Before me are the official government
records of this big manufacturing town,
which show that from 1853 down to the
year 1872, Leicester was one of the most
completely vaccinated towns in the
British kingdom, the number Of vac
cinations. owing to the alarm that Sc
we're epidemics OF smallpox, having
several times exceeded the number of
recorded births. During the years which
Immediately preceded the year 1871,
ninety-five per cent of the births in
Leicester were officially recorded as
having been satisfactorily vaccinated.
Yet N 1871. when at the very height OF
her good vaccination record, Leicester
was attacked by an extremel, severe
epidemic of smallpox, the deaths from
this disease during that year number
ing Iuorc than 900 per million Of pop
ulation, or about a thousand per mil
lion more than the smallpox mortality
in unsanitary London during the same
epidemic If ever a crucial test-experi-
ment existed it was that of Leicester in
which an almost completely vaccinated
community suffered far more from
smallpox than did poorly vaccinated
and terribly unsanitary London with
her crowded slum population.
The fearful mortality from smallpox.
in completely vaccinated and presum-
ably well protected" Leicester during
the years 1912 had the effect OF dc
stroying the peoples faith in ''protec-
tive" vaccination. The result was that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

Sir Dlnminie Corrigan, NJ, D., when
acting as one of the committee in 1871.
on the Vaccination Act, said: An m
vaeoinated child is ike a bag OF gun
powder which might blow up the whole
school, and ought not, therefore. to be
admitted to a school unless he is vac
cinated
Bearing in mind the recorded exnari.
ence OF the eighty thousand unvacr;n-
ated school pupils in Leicester duriuO
the smallpox epidemic of 1904 wba3
could appear more 1nonstrously absurd
ohan the above quoted quixotie deliver
anee OF an otherwise presumably sans
Pnyslcan2 DR.. Corrigan's case fur
nlshes an apt illustration of the peculiar
state of mind under which the victims
Of the Jennerian delusion are laborino
IN their efforts to bolster I'D a discred.
tied and waning cause.
As additional proof of the absur,Iitv
OF the claims Of the vaccine theorists r
AGAIN quote from Dr. Millard's ReDork
(page o. the following extract: ssTf Il
curious coincidence that In the fua
years, 1903 and 1904, in which the emf
demic occurred, the general dea4h-rate
OF Leicester was the lowest on raco-5 ;,
Had the vaccine bigots been nern;ttsz
IN 1913 and 1904 TO foist their disease
'I u. lmPosture upon the people
q leicester, who can believe that such
happy results as were achieved witbosrt
vaccination could have been possible
with it? 1900
On page 10 of his official Report Of
the 1904 epidemic in Leicester DR.. NIL
lard tells us:
The loss Of life caused BY the eDi.
demlc was astonishingly small There
We're only four deaths, one a man of
broken-dOwn habits, and three children.
one OF the latter was baby five weeks
Old, and one was the child OF a trarnp.
The last case did not belong to Leices-
ter, and was not infected in Leicester
so that this death might fairly be de-
Quoted. There was also. I am pIeased
TO say. very. little Disagreement or IN
jury produced by the disease in those
who recovered. the great majority show
ing no soaring whatever. On the whole.
therefore, Leicester is certainly to be
congratulated on having once again es-
capped so lightly"
In view of these official data recorded
and vouehed for by an ardent defender
of vaccination, what becomes of the
time worn assertion that vaccination,
when it fails TO protect from small pox.
renders that disease milder and less IA
tai? Where is the well-vaecinated and
re-vaccinated population in the world
Continued on ne~r pager
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

All Graduates of Dr.. A.
Stills American School
of OsteOpathy, Kinks
vile, Missouri.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22
How SMALLPOX Was BanisI1ed from LeicesteI
n MAGAzINEl. APRIL-BY w. HODGE.
(FRoM THE TWENTIETH {


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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

Continued on ne~r page.j
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18

Miss Halle Hood Miss Anna Gulck Mrs Anna r.
Barnard.
Advertising Manager-Mrs Robert Hunter.
Advertising solictors-Mrs. II. e. Cole, Mrs. J. c.
Morrow, Mrs. c. A. Starr Mrs Anderson, Miss Ella
Bracken, Mrs. Cooper Mrs. Esmond, Mrs. w. H.
Fahs, Mrs. ~ Guild, Mrs Hood, Mrs. S. K Spaulding
Mrs H. NJ Clanahan, Mrs. Crosby, Mrs. George Es-
mond, Mrs. L. A. McEachron, Mrs. Newton, Mrs. o.
G. Williams, Mrs. Ruddy
Treasurer-Mrs. H. p. Allen
Manager Of Circulation-Mrs. c. H. Townsend.
Assistant Managers of Circuation-Mrs. J. N
Kuhn, Mrs ]. c.. Denise Mrs. A. p. Wood
Ward Circulators-Mrs. Arnout, Miss Bell Miss
Hattie Kennedy, Mrs Durham, Miss Lydia McCague.
Mrs. Ed McEachron, Miss Emma Stiles Mrs Mary
Porter Mrs. Kuhns, Mrs George w. Slabaugh, Mrs
S. X. Spaulding, Mrs NJ. NJ. Van Horn, Mrs. A. L.
Blair Mrs. j. n Tillson, Mrs. Olive Foster.
South omaha--Mrs j. NJ. White as editor and
Mrs Ross and Mrs Blair in charge of circulation.
Success of the Venture.
A twenty-eght page paper with circulation Of
$4,000 COPIES requiring ten and one-half tons of pa
was the result of our labors AS far know.
of the largest editions edited by women, and the
only one editing both morning and evening edition
AS proof of success financially the net profits were
$2,221.31. Both editions went to press time. and
mail caught time. All this goes to show
what be successfully accomplished by alert deter
mined women, though they be inexperienced in
the work they undertake.
Rumors had reached us from other cities of the
first of the womans paper being sold for large
amounts. What should we do with ours? This
discussed with suggestions. The public library,
being so the hearts OF all of u.s. 1t decided
to donate first copyto It, which done Apropos
1t never thereafter heard from, never having
ceived honorable mention, nor, far know,
has 1t the light of the sunshine Of the library
The Sunday Bee of May 8, 1885, gave a lucid
count of the work of the day of publication which
will not review. Immediately the afternoon edition
going to press the of the editorial force turned
the paper to the who regularly employed,
realizing that their very greatly due to
the perfect system and complete facilities of The Bee
They accorded the most courteous treatment and
shown unlimited kindness by every attache with
whom they in contact which tended greatly to
tighten their task and add to its pleasures and eff
cheney.
The circulation of the evening edition brought
forces out enmasse, and any who caught glimpse
of the rotunda Of The Bee building while
waiting for papers will forget the sight,
will we that final battle.
We volunteered recruits, decidedly raw dis
banded veterans, though none of were disabled
MORALLY wounded, neither did feel had fought
our fight The brilliant deeds done individually,
and oftentmes single-handed will become his
tory That retreated de-
feated and but fell into the hands of the enemy.
is record. ANNA FITCH SKINNER
Omaha, June, 1896
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18
WOMENS MAY DAY EDTTION-Direct Al

We have been asked for review Of the May
Day Bee. Hoping to recall only pleasant memories
for the readtrs, cheerfuTiy again in memory
TO those days of new experience, and while
We found newspaper work not all romance,
neither it altogether devoid Of its
pleasant side There had been belief cur
rent in the minds Of most Of that II must be an
easy matter to produce bright interesting readable
and entirely satisfactory newspaper, views that were
found theoretical Real knowledge lie obtained only
through experience in this respect the knowledge is
ours Editors will ever find ready, sympathizers
among the May Day Bee ooterie
At a meeting of Presbyterian ladies, where the
needs of the Presbyterian hospital were being dis
cussed, who has been leader and an inspr-
ing spirit suggested the publishing of paper
means of revenue for the hospital II known that
women Of other large cities had met with considera
able success in that line. She argued that Omaha
women energetic and Intelligent any in the
land. The need was great the effort needed to be
great meeting called of the women of all the
Presbyterian the city discuss and decide
the matter. Regarding the wisdom of this undertake
ing there great difference of opinion and 1t
found that discussions must be closed that immediate
determination the thing necessary. The OPP
position forces in the minority, and lost Dis
cussion. with the spice of opposition. had made
ambitious enough to undertake almost any task. BY
vote decided TO try to find publication willing
TO let the this experiment. the proceeds If
there any, to go to the Presbyterian hospital
committee of women was afforded the oppor-
tunity to wait upon the editors Of the leading daes
lnstructing them to aggressive movement, and
presenting modest request
The Bee. being nearest to place of meeting,
and having Of the finest and most complete build
ings in the country and knowing its editor is always
liberal when his sympathies with the cause, the
committee decided to make its first appeal there AS
they being elevated to the editors sanctum what
thoughts we're theirs?
Echoes of the questions they expected to have piled
to them. What is to be its religion politics? Are
you goldbugs or stand free silver platform? How
much of the proceeds will contribute to the next
campaign fund.- Is it tariff for revenue or free
trade? Do you declare yourselves in favor of the
principles of the party of which l am leader? AID
infinitum! It was "16 to l." Mr.. Rosewater was
the one and with his usual singular power of anay
sis and his quick conception he discerned this at
There few questions asked, restrictions
imposed the terms were payment for nothing but
extra blank paper used and extra composing required
In issuing the two editions With assurances of his
best wishes for our unbounded success his journal
was ours for any date Of issue might name, gra-
tuttously with all emolument From that day the
editor tout of town" II of the women called
though he be, he could not stand by and II man
aged by other hands.
Uso of The Bee rendered.
Our first real enthusiasm was received by the re-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18

The scope of the paper was to keep it newspaper,
to retain nearly possible the everyday look of
The Bee and originality Original articles alone were
accepted, and although many excellent ones were re-
ceved for reprint they were without exception, con-
signed to the waste basket The advertising solicitors
met with the most generous of receptions.
Women Who Did the Work.
The staff of the Womans May Day Bee as fol-
lows:
General Manager-Mrs. George Tilden.
Assistant General Manager-Mrs F. B. Tracy.
Editorial Writers-Mrs. John Gordon, Mrs. w. p
Halford, Mrs. H. A Wagner, Miss Clara Elder.
Telegraph Editors-Mrs Max Adler, Mrs. Frank
Barnard Mrs. l.. E. Skinner.
Exchange Editor-Mrs. Charles D. Thompson.
Commercial Editor-Miss Issie France.
Live Stock Editor--Mrs. Alexander G. Buchanan
City Editor-Mss Mary Fairbrother.
Assistant City Editors-Mrs. w. s. Strawn Miss
Josephine Moberly t~t.
Sporting Editor-Mrs Will Townsend. " 80
Reporters-Mrs. Blanche L. McKelvy, Miss Bessie
Higgins, Miss May G. Acheson, Mrs Cora B. Latshaw,
Mrs. c. F. Gardner Mrs. Maude l. Wallace, Mrs. ]. II.
Wheeler, Miss Comstock, Miss Doris McMasters, Miss
Dell Porter Miss Winnie Keene, Miss Minnie Riley,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18
THANKS FROM THE MAY DAY WOMEN.

taohing much Importance to them let us Just mention
two.
A subscriber for one number when offered her
paper at her door looked at it, with disappointment
plainly visible and exclaimed, why thought it was
to be printed white SATIN" at cents copy. An
other asked, when am to receive my other num-
bers?" When told that she had subscribed for only
one number for cents, she said looking the paper
over els this all there is of It? thought was to
have dozen papers 1 don't believe want this and
she excused from the obligation of taking 80 little
for so much money. Again, an employe in a bank, a
man. refused to take his copy and pay for 1t be-
cause 1T was not delivered before o'clock" the
usual time But the people of this are generous
people with but few exceptions.
The time of preparation extended over period OF
six weeks. The number of actual workers was some
thing over 100 With two, possibly three. exceptions
this entire force wholly inexperienced in news
paper work They were not all Presbyterian women,
as from other churches valuable assistance
dered writer's of we'll known ability solicited
to contribute. Many from abroad gladly contributed
articles and the South Ofaha women proved them
selves esmabe assistants and lent efficient aid in
rious ways i - ~. td
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18

port of this committee 1t is small undertaking for
party of inexperienced women to take hold of
daily paper with circulation of 10000 and having
upwards of $50 employees, some of whom have had
many years of experience. paper that for twenty
four consecutive years has had but name edi-
tor upon its editorial But the first critical
period parsed The journal With
modesty most rare and simplicity exceptional, for
editors the women became the publishers of two edi-
lions of The Bee for May 1, 1895. the of Rose
water not the editorial and they responsible
for every line that appeared in the twentyeght page
publication.
The one idea dominant success and If popular
appreciation counts for anything in the line of
the women have the satisfaction of knowing The May
Day Bee a We would not have the pub
lie believe had of the trials of editor, and
an UNMARRIED experience, but little side play,
casionaly trains collided with each other and the
public. However, with the TACT discrimination and
self-sacrificng labor of general manager these
were, SO scientifically managed that they soon
forgotten and no damages had to be paid from
assets.
This brings to the writer's mind of the funny
things that added to our experience. Without at
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18

Our first real enthusiasm received by the;
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-02-21
Once Brilliant,
Book Thief Now

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Morton
Ellingsen, whose articles on the
underworld were printed by the
column a few years ago, is today
in Jefferson Market prison await
ing the action of the grand jury
for stealing books. The police
say that Ellingsen's once brilliant
mind has been dulled by the con-
tinued use of opium, and that his
final failure of late as literary
man caused him TO turn his
knowledge of good books to ac-
count by becoming a book thief.
Ellingsen is charged with steal
ing several rare volumes from
Ernest Dressed North. Included
among the number were Las
Cases Tears of the Indians, u
Goldsmith's Essays" (first edi-
tion) and Walter Savage Ian.
doris Guys Porridge Pot"