Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-09-16
SMALLPOX DISEASE NO
RESPECTOR OF PERSONS
One of the Most LOathsOme and Dread
ed of All Diseases, II Stalks Amid
the Mansions of the Rich as Well as
in the HOvels of the Poorest of the
Poor.
written by DR.. Emory R. Park, anr

(Wrtten by DR.. Emory R. Park, and
issued by the State Board of Health
Perhaps you have the idea that no
body ever has smallpox except the
poorer classes, and that nobody you
know Cor that you yourself) will
ever have this disease. We hope
you are right, but you may be
wrong. Not long ago, the writer was
in an observation car on the New York
and New Orleans Limited. Observation
cars are built, of course, for the pur-
pose of making it easy for the passen-
ers to see the scenery on the outside
of the car, but when a handsomely
dressed dame walks in and takes a
seat most everyone is seized with al
irresistible desire to observe the seen
cry within the car.
Such was the case in this instance
Besides the handsome gown, the lady
also wore several thousand dollars
worth of diamonds and other Jewels.
Evidently a lady Of means, and
perhaps one of culture. Her fea-
lures were correctly proportional, but
her face was far from handsome-for
alas, and alack, so thick were small
pox pits that although the experiment
was not tried, we venture to say that
it would have been impossible for
person to have put dime down on
her face without it's touching several
deep pox marks.
Can Neptunes mighty ocean wash
away these scare? Sad to relate, it
can not: either is there balm in
Gilead which will efface them.
And what is still sadder, there is
no way to get rid of them once they
are there. But there is way to pre-
vent them ever getting there, and that
is by vaccination.
A peck on the arm is les sobjec-
tionable than hundred on the face. A
word 30 the wise is said to be sufficient
be vaccinated!
However, since experience has
taught that a word to the wise is not
always sufficient, the State Board of
Health is going to issue a series of ar
ticles on smallpox and vaccination,
with the hope that a better under
standing on the part of the public
will result in better cooperation, and
that smallpox will in the near future
be relegated to the class of the has
beens." Typhus fever, yellow fever,
the Black Death and other maladies,
which at other times claimed their
victims by the millions, have been al
most entirely stamped out by the insti-
tuition of modern medical procedures,
and if everybody on the globe today
should be successfully yaccinated,
smallpox would go not to return. In
Germany, beginning at birth and re-
peated at stated intervals, everybody
is required by law to be vacicnated N
Germany the majesty of the law" is
not hollow term, but the law is re-
spected and cbeyed. The result in
Germany is, there amt no small
pox."
Georgia being one of the -four
states in this mighty union which has
no vital statistics law, it is impossible
for any one to say just how many cases
of smallpox we have "in our midst,
but that it is present to an amazing
extent is sure and certain, and it .
also sure and certain that if there we're
only one case of the disease within our
borders, that it is just exactly one
more than there is any excuse fov
there being. Let us get together, breth
ern, sisteren, and put the skates under
this disease, which is far more holly
than righteous. How can you help?
Well, the streets of Jerusalem were
kept clean by everybody sweeping be
fore his own door, and the State o.
Georgia can be kept clean of smallpox
by everybody being vaccinated vita