Arizona republican., 1918-11-25
MORE PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE VACCINE, SAYS
 DR. W. W. WATKINS

According to Dr. W. Warner Wat 134 North Central avenue, an insuf- ficient number of people are taking ! this means of shortening the epidemic, by lessening the severity of the at tacks in the individual and preventing the pneumonia.
 As the time approaches for the lift ing of the quarantine, it is more and more important that all persons have the vaccine: when public gatherings are permitted again and precautions cease to be taken, the immunity pro- duced by the vaccine will constitute the only protection which remains against a recurrence of the epidemic. Unless we are to suffer the disappoint- ing experience of Denver, Bisbee, and several cities in California, and re-en- act our quarantine, after lifting it. more general vaccination must be taken by the people. for the inter mingling of the unprotected persons with those who are still carriers. of the ] disease will almost certainly cause recurrence of the epidemic.
 The vaccine station was established as a part of the general campaign against influenza and upon the advice l of a large majority of the physicians l of the community. The vaccine is i used and recommended by nearly every 1 physician in the city and community l Chree exceptions only among 90 phy- sicians in Phoenix.) Approximately l 10000 people in the city and suburbs
 have been treated with the vaccine, ! but that number is insufficient.
 Tt is true that many people, like Colonel Barrows, have a natural i'm munity 10 infectious diseases, produced
 by temperate habits and general good health, but this should not be depended
 upon too far, because it notoriously
 fails in respiratory diseases. Who
 would have picked some of the persons
 now dead, as being likely to succomb
 to disease, while apparent weddings
 survive?
 It is also a mistaken idea that the
 vaccine causes the person to be tenn
 porarily more susceptible to influenza that is, the negative phase of vac cine treatment. This is not true either
 of the typhoid vaccine or of the pneu-
 monia vaccine. It was long ago prover
 that. within one hour after typhoid vaccine is administered, the protective
 substances begin to form and continue to form without lnterruptlOn untl they
 reach the maximum point. So defin : itely has this been demonstrated tha ! the army now gives the vaccine all il one injection, instead of one dose ever!
 five days, as formerly. The same thins is true of the pneumonia vaccine within three hours after the first in
 jection the white blood cells show al
 increase in numbers and within twely,
 hours, the substances which destro!
 the bacteria of pneumonia have begun to appear in the blood. However, thest do not appear so rapidly nor in sucl quantities, as after typhoid vaccine, s' } that the dose must be gradually raise' at intervals.
 7 Statement just issued by the offic : of the surgeon general, shows con , clusively the protective power of tn ? pneumonia vaccine. This vaccination . is not compulsory like the typhoid, bu
 among those who voluntarily took tn l vaccine, no cases of pneumonia devel l oped, while the ratio of pneumoni; l among the unvaccinated soldiers con ? tinued unchanged.
 ? The vaccine station at 134 Nortl : Central avenue is open from 10 to 12 a m.. and from to 6 D. m. These hour will be heightened whenever there i
 sufficient demand.