The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-27
THE FARMER: APRIL 81, 1911

license and repeated examinations of
virus, it is never found free from i'm
purities. And, how can it be, when 1T
is the foul product of a loathsome
disease to begin with, and in it's fur
Their propagation it becomes the pu-
trid matter running from the sores on
a diseased beast? One might as
readily contemplate a holy" devil, as
pure" vaccine virus! 1t is rotten
ness to begin with and pure" rotten
ness at the final. Could anything be
more ridiculously absurd. No bet
ter proof Of the impotency of licenses
and examinations Is afforded, than the
fact that recent outbreaks of the
foot-and-mouth" disease in cattle,
which spread through several states
and was suppressed only at great ex-
pense, was traced by the governments
experts to having been caused by vac
cine virus propagation. These 1nves-
legations finally resulted in the Sus-
pension of licenses and an attempt at
withdrawing all the contaminated vi
this had been accomplished, many
who had been vaccinated with this
virus were infected, and developed
an liberated mouth and throat, which
was very dangerous and could be con-
founded with diphtheria.
Several physicians reported instan-
ces where this virus produced Tester
ing diseases Of the bones Of the head
and of the substance of the brain and
spinal cord ,suspecting, also, this vi
rus of being the probable cause Of the
epidemic of meningitis which has
been such q mystery to the profession
in the last few years.
In this instance the same effective
ness Of inspection is shown to be
the result, as when a man begins to
keep his barn door locked after the
horse is stolen; with this difference
,1,H%o kH0 oct
pie would rather loose a horse than a
child.
To show their unbounded faith IN
the preventive value of vaccination,
Dr.. Townsend, as we'll as few other
very strenuous champions of vaccin-
alton, have gone so far as to deny the
value of quarantine and disinfection,
admitting that these means have not
stamped out scarlet fever and diph-
iberia and that they, consequently,
will not control smallpox. Yet, iso-
lation, quarantine and disinfection are
legal requir EN- ents in all so-caneu In
fictitious and contagious Diseases; and
the number of diseases thus classed
is constantly being augmented. This,
of course, is for the purpose of bring
ing them under the quarantine regu-
lations and penalties for violation.
The absurdity of the situation, and
of his position, must be potent to DR..
Townsend. But, on top of this, there
is the experience of Leicester, Eng,
where the people have, for nearly
forty years, refused vaccination and
depended on sanitation, isolation,
splendid results as to make the pro-
vaccinists wish that the city did not
exist.
Then, again, in Cleveland, Ohio, in
1901, Dr.. Martin Friedrich, the health
officer of the city taught a lesson in
have been eagerly adopted by the
health authorities everywhere. In
that city smallpox had ragged uninter-
ruptedly SINCE 1898, but In spite of
wholesale vaccinations and re-vaccin-
atoms the cases doubled themselves
every year. as in 1900 they had 993
cases, and from Jan. list to July 21st,
1901, the number amounted to 1928.
On that date a new health officer, DR..
Friedrich, was appointed and took
charge of the epidemic. He stopped
vaccinating; inaugurated campaign
of cleaning up and disinfecting the in
fected districts Of the city, with the
result that by Aug. 30, in just one
month and two days, he had rid the
city Of Cleveland, of smallpox
DR.. Townsend should know these
facts; but, perhaps it would be ex-
pecting too much, for, at the hearing
on repeal bills before the Legislative
Committee, in 1907. he denied hay
ing knowledge Of the death Of a child
in New Haven, which occurred in Oct.
1905, from lockjaw resulting from
vaccination, when he was shown the
clipping, covering almost the entire
first page Of the New Haven Leader,
giving an account of the case
II a medical man has no knowledge
Of case Of that kind, occurring in
his own city, he cannot be expected to
know what is going on, Of interest to
the medical profession. in any other.
It is up to the people to save them
selves and eventually they will, In
spite Of DR.. Townsend and his follow
ers.
Respectfully yours,
L. W. ANDERSEN,
Secretary The Conn. Anti-Compulsory
Vaccination League.