Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-26
WILSON WILL BARE ARM
TO VACCINATION KNIFE
Wife and Daughters Already
Have Undergone the
Ordeal.

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President Wilson will be yaccinated
tomorrow as "a preventive against
smallpox. the White House physician.
DR.. Grayson. q. s. N. having decided
that this is necessary. The President
was too busy today to bare his arm to
the knife. Secretary Tumulty has been
told that he ought also to go through
the operation but he is fighting against
it so far, fearing that he will be pre-
vented for some days from attending
to his duties. His experience with vac
cination has not been a pleasant one.
Nearly all the employees of the White
House and the executive offices were
vaccinate last night and today.
Mrs Wilson and her daughters were
vaccinated today by DR.. Grayson.
The necessity for wholesale vaccination
In the White House has arisen because
one Of the colored men employed in the
pantry had been in contact with the
disease through relative.
Report on Disease.
The health Office bulletin, which is an
advance memorandum for the report OF
the department for week ending Marcn
y. reviews the developments in the small
pox situation to that date. It is as
follows:
The feature of last weeks health
record that demanded the most serious
consideration was the prevalence OF
SMALLPOX The number of cases reported
shows no material increase as compared
with the number reported during the pre-
ceding week-thirteen as compared Win
eleven At the end Of the week, fifteen
cases were under treatment, as compared
ho or6 preceding
week.
1.-THE presence of the disease and its
cropping out in unexpected places nee
essarily give rise, however. to the suspl-
cion that some patients suffering from the
disease are at large unsupported and I'M
reported That this has been true in the
recent past has been demonstrated be-
vond question and there is no reason to
believe that 1t is not true now.
No Deaths From Disease.
Patients having smallpox go at large
unsupported because Of the mild type of
the disease now prevailing. Out of the
fifty-eight cases reported since January
there have been no deaths Some of the
recent cases, however, have been of
more severe type, and the outcome IS as
yet problematical.
'While this change in the nature of the
prevailing type Of the disease is rather
unfortunate SO far as the individual pa
tent is concerned, and is. therefore, great
ly to be regretted, nevertheless the COM
munity as a whole may find some con-
ISOLATION from it, since the discovery and
isolation Of patients suffering from severe
type Of smallpox, and, therefore, the linn
itation and suppression of smallpox OF
that type, is much more easily effected
than is the limitation and suppression of
the disease when prevailing in a mild
form.
Colored People Affected.
''Up to the present time smallpox has
prevailed almost entirely among persons
of the colored race. OF the fifty-eight
cases reported during the year all of
the patients except four have been col
ored. The points of contact, however,
between the races are SO numerous,
through the public domestic service.
through street cars, through public eat
ing houses, possibly through places where
beverages of various kinds are Sold
through washerwomen and through other
services, that it is important that persons
of the white race should not believe
themselves safe because smallpox Is not
yet prevalent among them
Vaccination is, therefore. urged upon
all persons without reference to their
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