Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-02

f,a lics- sf,,- 6oard- ---t7 ~ UNCLE BuLY.
 Mensneid. Sept sc isis- Compulsory Inspection Of School chiI-
 s dren.
 Hr Editor. That the end aud aim of the recent law compelling inspection of our public school ehildren ts to enforce compulsory vaccination no thinking citizen doubts. and no political. doctor or public edacatcr denies The lct- lowing taken from the columns Of the New York. Evening World of Sept. %, 1915, should be of sufiicient importance to set the citizen who habltually foi- lows the line Of least re1ietance to thinking, and if he or she pc parent r today a serious question whether our children belong to the state or their parents:
 Darlington. N T.. Sept so.-The
 deacbs of two little brothers from te-
 tanus. due to impure virus used in yee-
 cination. have put forty families in this city fin panic because the same pnysi- clan vaecinated children with vaccine 1 received in the. same consignment
 ths o.sratsoh s1ah for hTgs Frsederick h Perks. [.
 and Charles Perks, 5. started upon a round of households to investigate ey- cry case as soon as he learned the lads
 had died in theSPennsyiyanta hospital,
 ssdsgss sr. ssy E s,s sse 50 % sSst
 they might go to school. the rules of I the board of education and the state board of health requiring certificates
 of vaccination for entrance cf all l.pupIls. a.
 sThe mother of the lads is a trained nurse. and she used every known pre-
 caution. The physicians say that In
 such eases tetanus usually develops
 within 20 days. but here was q period
 of 1e- They expressed the opinion that
 it was impurity Of the virus. not a iack
 Of care that caused the disease.
 l ~"Dr Conroy said he would uaaks
 cultures from the remaining packagel of virus to learn If the tetanus germ Is present." Perhaps some of your readers ma,
 call to mind that about Sept. ist thu
 secretary of the state board of healtl | issued an address giving a certfhcati of good character to the vaccini nov , used and emphasizing as fact tha wherever bad results were apparen r from vaccination lack of care on tn r part of the parent or nurse was re { sponsibie. TE- e pr. C.. E. Dienst of Aurora, Ill. in
 recent medical magazine discusse Vaccines at length. 1 beg to present I few of his criticisms. pr. Dienst says b That school of therapeutics winch na s eulogized the new method of healin t via vaccine route should carefully not e what the A M A. Journal says Aul e 2s. 1914. The first point of interest is t The noted advance in therapeutic s shown in the development of vaccin
 therapy has brought with 1t grave dar
 gers as we'll as advantages" Deve - opment." advantages" grave dar ,tl gers in one single simple breatf " Grave dangers, Not to the physicia - 50 long as he conceal the grave dar h gers" to the laity.
 e The editorial also mentioned "daI n ger" of rapid coTnmercialization h this new method m Ahemi Isn't 1t already commercia ss ized7 Isn't the commercial featuT ,- rather than the therapeutic value ss this method. the crux of the system +o In view of this the latest di5ast ar from compulsory vaccination, we mi
 well ask ourselves how soon 1t may
 the lot of some family in our midst
 have 10 mourn the loss of a child re children who because of greed al m graft characteristic of a goddess me IL, ical science are forced to lay the m lives on the altar of medical intole TX ance.
 ig When the sovereign state of CO m necttcut places over the doors of O r. scho0lhouses that legend of -Dant,
 He who enters here leaves hope b to hind" it is up to the citizen to reali or that the state has no more right to 1 sy wade the domain o1@therapeutlcs tn IT It. has to invade the domain of T II. fligion. Both are necessarily and l al herentiy matters of personal and pl or vate judgment. and In the exercise 'ir this judgment the person must rema h. free. Let's talk 1t over at the to' fs meeting!
 b. A. W. DAVIS n- Norwich. Oct. 1. 1915.