The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-04
MAJOR B0UDREN ST0UTLY CUDGELS
 VACCINATION
Bridgeport. Conn, N

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 Bridgeport. Conn. May s1. 1912 Editor. THE FARMER:-
 |; SE:-In the issue of a local news
 paper appeared an article entitled
 Smallpox and Vaccination in Connec'
 ticut' evidently. written by some 6nt
 who knew little or nothing of the sub
 ject he wrote about.
 The burden of his plaint however
 was the usual wall from that element of ethe medical profession, who get
 their living by >humbugging the public
 on matters medical.
 | One would think from reading the l article that no one was capable o1 l forming correct opinion upon thu | subject of vaccination unless he be- longed to the Squirt Gun Brigade o1
 the medical profession.
 | The gfst of his complaint Is contain ed in the following sentence: 'fNo | Vaccination. smallpox. Vaccination, nc smallpox ,-
 perience that statement should be cas- | fly proven, if it were true but unfor- 1 tunately for our Medical Editor the contrary is the case, as the following facts will show.
 Smallpox in Japan, one of the best j vaccinated and revaccinated countries
 in the world, see U. S. Public Health | | Population 4S,O00. 900. List of recent epidemics.
 Year. Cases Deaths P. c.
 1898 14s.o12 4o.s71 27 1-z 1908 1s,o7s 6sss s21- In, contrast with Japan let us take the city of Leicester. England and see how they were affected by the neglect of vaccination.
 Leicester is one of the least vaccin- ated cities in the world. In the re- cent epidemic this city suffered as Population ,26o,ooo Year. Cases Deaths PC. 1904 3M 3. 1-4
 Vaccination has been abandoned in this city for s5 years and they should have found out by this time the ter rible effects so feared by our Medical Editor.
 The. report of Germany is no more encouraging than that of Japan, Tor our vaccinal friends cause; see the following report will shows
 Year Cases Deaths PC. 1sSs 1sSs sss sss ss s is 1s ss-1S" m-1Ss General death rate from U. s. Mor- tality Statistics 1907:
 
 England and Wales, 1905-16@0 F. c.
 United States 19O5-16-3 F. c.
 Note the country most vaccfnated has the higher death rate and higher smallpox death rate.
 The Statistics in England show as reported by John Burns in the Eng fish Parliament-just in proportion as exemption from vaccination has tn- creased from per cent. to 30 per cent, so deaths from smallpox have declined.
 MORE FATAL THAN SMALLPOX.
 List of deaths from smallpox. chickenpox and vaccination aa given by the Registrar General of the Vital Statistics of England for several years Popuaation in area of 'registration. 21 ,000, 900.
 Year smallpox Chickenpox Vaccination 1906 21 deaths 106 deaths 2s deaths 1907 10 deaths 120 deaths g dea ths 1908 12 deaths 93 deaths Az deaths
 Ratio h deaths to vaccination as given by the Registrar General of in Reports for 1906. 1907 and 1908:
 1904, one death to every 25.4ll vac- cinated.
 1907, one death to every 32,4s3 vac- cinated.
 1908, one death to every 2s.ess vac- cinated
 From this data it will be seen that the ratio of deaths to vaccinations over 42 per million vaccinated: The mortality of vaccination. it will. thus be seen, is much greater than the smallpox mortality per million popula- ton. Thus, the average smallpox deaths for the three years above stat ed for the 21.000,000 population in the registration area is only about 1 1-2 deaths from natural smollpox per mil lion population, whereas the deaths from vaccination in 1908 are at the rate of Az per million vaccinated.
 In the U. s. Government publica- tion by the U. S. Census Bureau known as Mortality Statistics 1907, the page 40 for five years, including the epidemic years of 1901 and 1902, as on- ly ,3f per million population, thus clearly proving by both the statistics of Great Britain and the United States that there is regularly great CT mortality from vaccination than from smallpox.
 Now there is another remarkable fact which appears in the records of the English vital statistics as given above, which is very significant, and that is the high death rate given for CuAChcApOA as COIuQdT6O to SlnallQOX. Here we see that the very mild dis ease which is supposed to seldom cause a death is put down for about ten times the fatality of the graver disease smallpox. The Registrar General casts doubt himself on, the accuracy of this return and suggests that at least part of these deaths re- turned as from chickenpox must be due to the graver disease smallpox But as there is not another or more complete explanation in the we'll known endeavor of vaccinating doc tors to ''save vaccination from re- proach?" We all know that small pox is frequently confounded in diag- nosis with several other diseases and | particularly with chiclKenpox, measles and scarlet fever, and as matter of l fact, in old times these several dis l eases were well confounded together | as merely varieties of smallpox and have really been distinguished from each other only in comparatively re- cent times. Now it Is notorious that doctors who are dogmatically commit | ted to the theory Of vaccination, and who hold to the doctrine that it is l an absolute protection against small l pox In diagnosing a supposed case of l smallpox, have a edogmatic rule like this: Has the subject been recently and successfully uRccinated? If .so, | the disease in question cannot be | but must be chickenpox or | measles, &c. And by this fanatic req | soning. making the facts fit the doc-