The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-11
VACCINATION
STATION BUSY
An Average Of Three Persons Every
Minute is Maintained for the
Two Hours >statlon
10 Open.
ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE
Doctors Duck Free Service and
Couple Of Physicians Had All
tho Work to Do Yes
terday.

The free pneumonia vaccination
station in the George Washington
school has become SO popular tnat
even the clerk had to call Tor netp
yesterday afternoon.
Keokuk people to the number OF
1880 were vaccinated in lOz mlnuLeS
between / and o'clock by two doc
/ tors.
/ Among those taking the shot in the
arm were George e. Rix, George ..
trucker. J. H. Finigan, William Bal
bach, six members OF one fanny
MANY children. fifty colored persons.
and representatives of every phase OF
life in Keokuk
Fifty Of those vaccinated were
hcolored. and one Ashby family came
en- masse and all six Of them were
vaccinated.
Station was Nearly swamped.
About half the applicants yesterday
were children. A majority OF me
| adults were women, the men having
majority the day before.
/ The outer room was crowded all
the time with people waiting tnelr
turn and barring their arms, and the
line moved into the rear room, past
the nurses and doctors without q
pause. An average of about three
persons minute were vaccinated.
The ages ranged from four to
eighty years. :,
Clerk Winters put in call for
clerical help, and the Red Cross as
signed Miss Laura Alton to obtain II
for him by this afternoon.
Drs. Fegers and Wollenweber nao
all the work to do in the rush yes
Iterday afternoon, no other doctors
appearing at O'Clock as promised.
| The Problem of the Doctors.
| at is evident that two or three doc
tors cannot do it all, said Health
Physician Fegers, mot only because
1T is physically impossible for
couple of doctors to vaccinate all who
iappiy in the two hours. but also be-
cause one or two cannot be expected
Ito give their time from their practice
while the others attend to their per
isonal work
A number Of persons were turned
iaway at 8 o'clock who might have
been yaccinated If there had been
some more physicians there to 90 IT.
The city board Of health has given
serum free to Keokuk doctors TO use
In their offices. and it is being thus
used, the physicians of course chars-
! ing a fee for this Office work. 1t has
been suggested to the board OF health
that it withdraw the supply OF vac
cine from any doctor who fails TO DO
4 his part OF the free work at the CITY
station, as it is not fair for them TO
be increasing their incomes while
/ or-o II
ing for nothing at the station
All this week, every day betw zen
II and o'clock, the free station will
| be open, but after this week only
second and third shots will be given
/ those taking their first this week.
| and no new applicants will be vacci-
mated.
Saves Nine.tenths Of Deaths.
| While Keol5uk physicians have
been very conservative in their state
ments as to the value of the vaccine
/! in preventing pneumonia. most of
them strongly advising 1t, however
on the reports that have been aces
sible to the up-to-date physician, no
accurate percentage has been at
tempted.
Yesterday. the meeting Of the
American PUBIC HSdlIu dSSOCldt1Ou
at Chicago attracted national atten-
ton because 1t had the influenza and
resulting pneumonia epidemic on It's
program.
DR.. e. c. Rosenow. the highest
authority on the vaccine used here.
told the association that the vaccina-
ton is preventive Of inuenza as well
as of pneumonia, to a greater extent
than was known here in Keokuk.
He said that his reports showed
that the epidemic of influenza de-
clined from 220 per thousand among
the unvaccinated to nine per thou
sand among the vaccinated, and there
were less than two cases Of pneu-
monia among the vaccinated as COM
pared with fourteen cases per thou
sand among the unvaccinated. The
deaths were only one-tenth as many
among the vaccinated.
Reduced to Keokuk figures. this
means that if everybody in town were
vaccinated, not more than total of
a hundred could take influenza