The Washington herald., 1912-09-25
THE PEOPLES FORUM
RIDICULE IS CAST
UPON VACCINATION
President Of Anti-Society Calls
Attention to Some Of Its
Inconsistencies.

To the Editor: The article In youf
paper Of September 2i, headed '1nad-
equate Protection to Blame for Deaths .
Cby vaccination,. deserves reply which
I herewith present.
Ever since the vaccinstion supersti-
tion started the injuries following itf
practice have been stoutly denied and
blamed upon other causes by the men
who have a professional or financial IN
terest at stake In the practice. Any In
telligence should be able to see the alb
surdity- OF putting the blame on dust
in the vaccine wound. after corruption
from the sore on a sick beast has been
introduced into the wound. which real
ly causes the trouble, Every success
full vaccination means an infected
wound: that Is the intent Of the vacci.
nator-to inoculate a constitutional dis
ease in the victim. DR.. Copeman. In the
last edition OF the Encyclopedia Britain
nica- writes under Vaccinations: IN
consists In the intentional transference tc
the human being Of the eruptiye disease
OF cattle called cowpox." How absurd
for DR.. Rubner to talk about vaccine
coming from a perfectly healthy COW!
Whoever heard OF pus running from ul.
GERS on the belly Of a healthy cow!
Dr. Blue is wholly wrong in imagin-
ing that any inspection OF the manufac-
ture of vaccine virus may insure Its
purity or freedom from danger.
would call the attention Of DR.. Blue
to the discovery OF 'foot-and mouth
disease found in the vaccine virus In
l908 by the chief pathologist of the
Bureau of Animal Industry! I would also
call his attention to the bulletin OF
Passed Assistant Surgeon Rosenau on
impurities in vaccine virus, in which he
says: "Vaccinia is a specific disease. the
cause OF which has not been determined
We are therefore working somewhat in
the dark. We are compelled 10 vacci-
nate our patients with a virus contain
ing micro-organisms other than those
causing vaccinia." DR.. Rosenau goes on
TO say that II is impossible TO manu-
facture pure" vaccine virus, as every
body knows who .has Investigated the
subject. It is Just as impossible for the
Marine Hospital authorities to examine
every specimen OF vaccine under their
microscopes TO astertain II II contains
syphilis, lockjaw germs. or tuberculosis
Each vaccine tube would cost SIS IL such
a thing were attempted! II Is simple
BLUM to suggest such a thing. Tetanus
germs have often been found in vaccine
virus, and laboratory animals have been
killed by being vaccinated with the vac
cine bought on the open market.
The German Vaccine Commission found
80 persons inoculated with syphilis by
vaccination QsSO. DR.. Jenner. who in
troduced vaccination. said that vaccina-
ton which did not produce erysipelas was
not OF the protective" kind! About
twenty different kinds OF vaccine virus
have been used since Jenner's wonder
full discovery" and he never heard OF
the kind in use to-day! An average
Of fifty-two children have been killed by
vaccination every year in London from
lsS1-lsSs
The best sanitation in the world is
what keeps smallpox at bay in Germany
even II 5000 die annually from cancer.
Very likely as result OF cattle pus
forced by law in their blood. Germany
has the highest infant and child mortality
in the world. and Leicester. where vac
cInation has long ago been abandoned.
has the lowest.
The first rigid compulsory vaccinating
law Of Prussia was passed In 1884. when
every child had to be vaccinated before
a year old. All soldiers were revacci'
mated on entering the army. In 1871 Dr
Seaton Informed the committee of the
House Of Commons that he knew Prus-
sia to be well protected" and was en-
toying immunity from smallpox. Scarce
" had he said 1t when the great small
pox epidemic of 1S71-72 broke out in Prus-
sia, in which she lost l24,eis persons,
nearly every one OF whom had been
vaccinated. In Berlin the death rate rose
TO $40 per million, as compared with
c.4SO In London! Germany never banish-
ed smallpox until she cleaned up.
Our army authorities In 1900 not
only could not prevent smallpox in the
troops in our Philippine army, but could
not save them from dying of the dis
ease which DIR. Sydenham said was one
OF the mildest OF diseases II no harm
were done by doctor or nurse. The small
pox mortality among the troops in that
year was 459 per cent. the highest
smallpox mortality every reported in any
army In the world! This was nearly
three times the death rate from small
pox in England before vaccination was
ever heard of! It would be gratifying
to have some OF our officials. who are
professionally interested in this supersti-
ton come forth and explain these events
which show up their practice In any
thing buc a favorable light.
H. BRADFORD.
President Of the Anti -Cumrnlsory Vaccination So
nj ,h. NJ Columbia