The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
BOUDREN DENOUNCES
MEDICAL TYRANNY.
Local Inspection Of Schools
Bill Requiring Each
Child to Be Separately
Examined Once Yearly
An Instance of .Vaccina-.
ton.

Editor Evening Farmer:
The recent reports of the Board On
Health meetings as given in the daily
papers have furnished interesting
reading for our citizens. When the
subject of school inspection was first
discussed the medical fraternity was
so anxious to serve the public that it's
members were willing to act in the ca
pacity of inspectors free Of charge I
sounded a note Of warning at that
time suggesting that it would be well
not to take these gentlemen too ser
iously.
The reports referred to fully justify
my predictions as the present incuna-
bent has been reappointed at an in
creased salary, and it is said that in
also school nurses must be added to
the force, to say nothing Of supplying
the children of poor parents with
spectacles. With the proposed dem
tai clinics in operation we shall no
doubt learn that tooth brushes also
are to be supplied.
I hope the taxpayers fully appre-
ciate the efforts of the department ofi
health to increase the tax rate, and
possibly In the near future provide
positions for young and inexperienc-
ed members of the medical profess
sion.
The people are beginning to realize!
what they may expect when Rhis !;
close corporation trade-union- medicalJ
oligarchy gets its yoke upon their
necks and from which they will find
it hard to obtain release.
The following story Of medical in
fanny and brutality indicates the ex-
tent to which some members of the
fraternity will go while holding polit-
ica1 appointments.
Editor Leader:-According to law
my baby girl, aged 1-2 years, has
been vaccinated eight times within
the past six months; but she being a
very strong and vigorous child, the
vaccine virus was unable to invade
her blood and break down her Vital
c1nat1ons were reported as being UNI
successful. In my opinion such q.
one is practically immune from any
contagious disease.
They now propose to cultivate al
blister on my child's arm, and after
famed, they intend to inject vaccinei
pus virus to see if the vaccina ton |;
can be induced ito take / havel
just heard of a case where such pro- |,
cedure resulted in the death of al
child from malignant diphtheria a.
few days later. j
Yours very truly,
MRS. ELIZABETH c.
Pittsburgh, Feb. IL, 1911.
A prominent physician comments
on the foregoing as follows:
''What will become of the people;
when medical superstition succeeds In !!
securing all the power it is praying!
for.
"a Pittsburgh gentleman assures
the writer that the above item is true
in every particular.
1.-The criminal zeal set forth by this,
item is enough to cause the blood oE
lovers of individual freedom to boila
with indignation.'
People who know anything of the
principles of ealth and life, any
thing upon which the laws Of health
depends, must look upon a profess
a conf1ding clientele as indicated in
the above quoted item much as they
would look upon Juggernaut or an
Inquisition.
There is a Bill, No. 744 before thes
Connecticut Legislature containing
arouse every parent in the State into'
active opposition.
Section V.-The school COMMITTEES
of every town and Board of Educa-
ton Of every City shall cause every
child in the public schools of such
carefully examined by one of the
school physicians at least once in ev-
cry school year."
This is only a part of the bill the,
whole of which if put into operation
would take the physical management
of your children out of the hands OF
the parents, and give them over to
such medical political humbugs and
incompetentS as might be appointed
for political reason to execute the
law. 1t is to be hoped that our Leg
islature will be able to discover the
colored gentleman secreted in thei
woodpile and prevent the passage of
this bill.
MAJOR THOMAS BOUDREN.
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