The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
Answers are Satisfactory, and Every
Day Sees More keokuk Per-
sons Taking shot in
Arm There.

by those questions growing out OF the
establishing of the free pneumonia
vaccination station in Keokuk-
Over $50 repres entattEe people IN
Keokuk have taken the vaccination at
the free station, and some more aris-
tocratic ones have had 1T In the office
OF their family physician. Probably
over two hundred vaccinations had
been made by this morning.
Come on In; the Waters Fine.
Nobody has reported any i'll effects
to date. Those asked say they felt
nothing whatever after taking the
preventive shot.
Practically all the Keoluik physi-
clans recommend the vaccination
against pneumonia by the Rasenow
serum, and quote all the lights in the
American profession as being of tho
same mind. In Chicago and New York,
they say, it has been used In hundreds
of thousands of cases. and Chicago
and New York contain the leading
brains in American medicine, It Is ad-
mitted.
So, everybody In Keokuk has taken
it, or is saying they are going to take
it.
Ninety-eight were vaccinated at the
free station In the George washington
school basement yesterday afternoon,
during the hours, which are from to
o'clock in the afternoon.
is Popular Institution.
| All sorts and conditions Of people
came there again yesterday to be vac
cfnated against pneumonia-it Is to
iprevent pneumonia especially and
practically, although 1t is also more
or less useful in preventing influenza
Yesterday there were white people
and colcred people there. Oneth1rd
were women and twothirds were men
The age was higher than on Sunday
as the children could not Get there
easily week day afternoons. Some men
aged in the eighties were vaccinated
yesterday afternoon.
Among the younger ones were two
old cronies, Capt. B. P. Taber and
Capt. T. F. Baldwin. They came to
gether. were vaccinated within the
same minute, and left together.
| Since the most OF the doctors and
nurses were in the list vaccinated at
the free station Sunday, totalling six.
ty-eight that day, the ninety-eight OF
yesterday afternoon represent larger
increase in attendance there rnan the
figures themselves indicate.
J.
Made In q labo ratory.
The Rasenow vaccine is not an anti
toxin, but a true vaccine, made IN
| the laboratory in culture media, under
perfection OF aseptic conditions ne
.cessar1aIly, and starting with a few
germs obtained by putting a little sa.
liva on glass slide, in the beginning.
That was month ago, and the pres
emit crop Of germs is as remote from
original ones as the present wheat
by King Pharaoh.
Some people are waiting to see the
effect on friends, and when they see
the effect is no effect, insofar as any
symptoms are concerned, they too, go
to the station. It is fast becoming a
very popular institution and it is alb.
solutely free to all, rich and poor,
black and white, cultured and rough.
neck, aged and young. In. z. c. Rase-
now furnishes the serum free, IN &C.
| cordance with the medical sense OF
duty, which prevents a doctor making
money out of his discoveries in
science.
Children Only With ParentS Consent.
This afternoon was school chill.
dren's day at the free vaccination sta.
ton. The hours OF service there in
the afternoon are school hours, and
some special arrangement had to be
made for any children whom their
parents desired to have vaccinated
against pneumonia.
The pupils in all the public schools
were told that they might leave
school this afternoon for that pur-
pose, but that in order to be vacci-
mated at the free station each one
must have written request or con.
sent from a parent to present to the
doctors working there. This is de-
signed to prevent any child taking
the vaccination without the consent
of its parents.
Father Giglinger made a similar
announcement in st. Mary's school 10
the pupils Of that institution.
Everybody must get his first shot
before 8 o'clock next Saturday after
noon, II at all, as after that time nc
first injections will be given, and nc
new vaccinations will be started mex,
: week The vaccination completed II
three shots week apart