Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-02-28
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Does this showing indicate that
vaccination or re-vaccination had
any effect either in preventing or in
mitigating smallpox? According to
recent official government reports
received by the writer direct from
Toxic, Japan had III, GIL cases of
smallpox and 47,919 deaths from
that disease during the last two dec
AIDES (1SS9 to 1909. During the
year 1908 Japan again suffered Sc
verify from smallpox, having exper-
fenced the worst epidemic of recent
times. From S. Kubota. director of
the Sanitary Bureau. of the Empire
of Japan, | received by personal let
ter the official statement, that "the
number of cases of smallpox Off
cially notified in Japan for the year
1908 was 1S,O67, while the number
of officially recorded deaths from
the same disease the same year, was
5,3S7." This was a case fatality of
more than thirty-two per cent. 1t
would be interesting TO ascertain
to what extent the variolOus dis
ease was mitigated by vaccination
in these 5,S37 fatal cases of post
VAGINAL smallpox. Perhaps some
Obliging apologist for vaccination
who is versed in the mysteries of
Jennerism. will be kind enough to
tell us.
This is the true state of affairs in
a country in which compulsory vac
cinatiOn and re-vaccination, repeat
ed every five years, has been rigidly
imposed upon the entire Japanese
population since the year 1885. and
in which smallpox is alleged by the
Jenner bigOts to be non-existent. In
the presence of such convincing
proof of the utter uselessness and
worse than uselessness of vaccination
as a preventative of smallpox, where
is the sane person who can retain
belief in the alleged efficacy OF vac
cination as an anti-variolOus meas
ure?
Is il possible that such a cOnvinc-
ing demonstration of the uselessness
of vaccination can fail to change es-
tablished beliefs in Jenner's filthy
quack-nOstrum? Be it remembered
that Japan is the nation constantly
pointed to by the upholders of vac
cinatiOn, as the one country in
which compulsory re-vaccination is
rigidly enforced and in which, as a
result thereof, smallpox is alleged to
be practically nonresident.
The trifling matter of 1907
cases of smallpox having pust rec
emily occurred within one year, in
a completely vaccinated and re-vac-
cinated population. nearly 5000 of
which cases resulted fatally, in spite
of the "mitigated" virtues of vac
cinatiOn and ra-va ccip alton fraouopA
ly repeated. does not seem to have
dampened the ardor of the enthusi-
ast;c promoters of Jenners quack-
nostrum All sorts of lame excuses
and ingenious devices have been in
ton in their studied efforts to ex-
plain away, evade or conceal the
multitudinOus failures of the vac
cine nostrum to save it's subjects
from fatal smallpox. but the newt
able fact remains that efficient"
vaccination supplemented by rec
cent" re vaccination and re-re-vac-
cination, compulsorily inflicted up
on the entire Japanese population
every five years. has signally failed,
not only to protect from various
attack, but has also been unavailing
in all these thousands upon thOus-
ands of cases of post-vaccinal small
pox to avert fatal result.
Wonderful indeed are the mys-
teries of VAGINAL immunity!
Are the Japanese statistics evil
dence that vaccination or re-vacci-
nation prevents smallpox in the duly
vaccinated? On the contrary. are
they not stern witnesses bearing en-
phatic and unimpeachable testimony
against the unreasonable claim that
vaccine incubation \either protects
from smallpox or mitigates it's Sc
verify in the duly vaccinated?
The stubborn fanaticism of the
pro-vaccinists in frantically persist
ing in their professions of faith i'm
the asserted efficacy of protect
i've" vaccination in spite of over
whelming proofs of its utter ineffi-
cacy, reminds the writer of mono
maniac, who, though apparently sane .
on other subjects. harbored the de-
fusion that he was dead His ply
stefan believing that he could sure
ly reason him out of so manifest de-
fusion. said to him: Dead men do
not bleed If wounded, do they?'
NO" said the monomaniac. II pre-
sumo not" well. just let me prick
you little" said the physician. land
see If you will bleed" The patient
consented. and when confronted
with the bleeding said: well. that
only proves that dead men do
bleed" II the arguments of the
pro-vaccinists prove anything in fav-
of of vaccination, then the mono
maniac was right.
In Japan there is no opposition to
the compulsory vaccination law
which is enforced upon all alike.
There are no anti-vaccinists in the
Empire, to ''poison the minds OF the
people" against the alleged bene-
icence of DR.. Jenner's infallible
quack nostrum which admittedly
poisons the blood and diseases the
bodies of its victims. In corrobor-
alton of my statement that there are
no opponents to vaccination in Jap
an l here quote a statement author
itatively reported, as having been
recently made at a banquet in Lon
don, Eng, by distinguished rep
resentative of Japan. In 1906, at
the Jubilee Dinner of the Incorporat-
ed Society of Medical Officers of
Health of England. Baron Takaki.
of Japan. said "There are no anti
vaccinationists in Japan. Every
child is vaccinated before IL is six
months old, re-vaccinated when it
vaccinated at fourteen years of age
when going to the middle school.
The men are re-vaccinated before