Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-02-28
SAYS THREE DIED
FROM VACCINATION
Charges That Deaths of Trenton
Children Were Due to 1t

Charges That Deaths Of Trenton
Children Were Due to 1t
Three cases of death. Who is
responsible?
Benjamin Hardesty, son of David
Hardesty, S25 Melrose Avenue, s
years of age, vaccinated December
"a, taken sick January 9th, died on
January IL. Diagnosed as spinal
meningitis. Enjoyed previous good
health.
Harding Fell. son of Frank Fell.
504 Rutherford Avenue, six years of
age, vaccinated December 81, died
January 18th. Diagnosed as spinal
meningitis. Had been in good health
previous to vaccination.
Mary Lee, daughter of Elverton
Y. Lee, ISL East State Street, six
years of age, vaccinated January 5,
died January 16. Death due to vac
cination. Had not been i'll one day
this winter.
These three cases are similar in
all details, and how many more SIM
liar cases that are not known and
how many more cases to be expect
ed. There has not been O death
from smallpox in Trenton for nine
years, and only one case reported
during that time, which was not
serious. This was during period
when vaccination was not enforced.
And now three deaths from vac
cination. Who is responsible? This
is some of DR.. Fell's "bugaboo" that
he would like to put off on the pub
lies lay mind More "bugaboo" is
that it has been positively proven
that there are many unknown germs
in vaccine virus, and result is
deaths.
The authorities hide behind
Estate law" which emphatically
states that vaccination is mot"
compulsory (unless made so by the
local board) and thus force parents
to have this poison injected in the
blood of healthy children. Who is
responsible? Why don't the Board
of health insist that all men. women
and children be vaccinated? The
jails would not hold small per-
centage of those who would refuse
unless there was serious out
break in Trenton.
If it is Estate law" why don't
the state concern itself in having it
as the local board does in Trenton?
If vaccination protects, there is no
danger to Trenton from that source.
At first one vaccination was sup
posed to provide immunity for life,
later fourteen years, later seven
years, then five and the results of
the United States army in the hill
l.aA ct
the longest period of immunity.
Even at that soldiers vaccinated and
re-vaccinated every six weeks died
from smallpox.
Vaccination has positively moth
ing to do with the decrease of small
pox. 1t is all due to isolation and
sanitation. 1t can be proven that
vaccination started smallpox in
community and has spread the dis
ease where a slight outbreak has
occurred.
These are facts that the Board of
Health and School Board should
know before they insist on leopard
izing. the lives of little children for
the benefit of the Drug Trusts who
profit from the sale and manufac-
ture of vaccine virus
These three children are beyond
help now but for the sake of others
this thing must be stopped. AS Mr..
Hardesty said. Hereafter / shall re-
serve the right to say whether my
child shall be vaccinated or not"
And this is just the point that many
other parents insist on. The results
justify the opposition taken to COM
pulsory vaccination.
The question is still to be an
swered. Who is responsible for
these deaths? A physician who at
tended one of these children said
that il he were the parent he would
charge the local school board. DR..
Fell and himself with responsibility
for the childs death, and be willing
to testify.-A Parent"
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