The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-18
THE PEOPLES SAY
VACCINATION A SUPERSTITION :; COMPULSORY VACCINATION
 A CRIME
By Simon Louis Katzoff. Ph.D., MD.

By simon Louis hatzoH, Ph.D., MID. 1 (Author of Timely Truths On Human Healthy
 In response to your kind invitation | to give the readers of The Bridgeport
 Times statement on the vaccination 1 epidemic of vaccination, I herewith
 present, very briefly, my opinion: l l. Vaccination is not only harmful, l but useless as preventive of small pox. It never did prevent, does not
 prevent and cannot prevent fl orn
 smallpox or any other filth expf es- 1 sion.
 l 2. Thousands of children and
 adults, who were vaccinated and re l Vaccinated, for smallpox. get small 1 pox despite vaccination.
 | 3. Thousands of children and being vaccinated and revaccinated but many eff not most) soon after break out with measles, enlarged ton l sils, diphtheria, influenza, pneumc
 nia and the like.
 1 4. Vaccination in the days of Jen-
 ner was supposed to grant immunity l lprotection) from smallpox for s>
 served that vaccinated people go, smallpox. they said it will give pro- l lection for period of 21 years l when this calculation failed the.
 made it 4 years; then seven, and nov 1 the vaccine man ufacturers, who have l millions of dollars invested in thelr business. would like for you to take
 1t as often as you are reminded of it.
 In other words: Why not take it ev ,rs
 morning as an "eye-opener;" or
 smear it on bread instead of butter; l or use it for shoe polish?
 every doctor and nurse, would be among the first to land in the hap
 py hunting ground'-are the flag l matters of hygiene and sanitation; also insufficient food, anxiety and fear.
 G. The only preventive of smallpox or any other filth illness is sanit ation; by giving the people clean water, un adulterated food, sanitary and mod ern 1avatories and good sewage. Fur ther, sufficient air, sunshine, whole some work, good food and interest in ones life work will prevent from snallpox-and is the only genuine and permanent immunity. z As to compulsory vaccination, especially when it is forced upon chill dren of school age as a condition for admission to school Gin fact. they are ous illness on the tender body or a child, is an outrage. It prevents the child to exercise that most essential, unquestionable and inalienable right of the child, that of an education. Such invasion of natural right to life, health, and education is surely the clearest violation of those great American principles of inherent nat
  the Declaration and Constitution of our country and in our state.
 8. Compulsory vaccination ranks with human slavery and religious per secution and is one of the most flag rant infringementS of the rights Of the human race.
 g. Some people do not know that the medical profession (meaning the three schools of medicine-the A1lo- pathic, Homeopathic and Eclectic schools) are very much divided on the subject of vaccination. Many physicians from all schools are op- posed to it. Further, the most em- inent journalists, authors, scientists and thinking men and women in the have declared themselves against vac cine and serum theraphy.
 10. Reliable statistics prove more deaths from vaccination than from From Reports of Registrar General
 Total Deaths Total Deaths
 Year smallpox vaccination
 19o6. 2d is 2s
 1907. ....-.." !O
 19OS.. ..-.-. F Io
 istrar General of the three years, 1911, 1912 and 1913, tell another in- teresting story of vaccinal fatality, as follows: Total deaths from smallpox for all
 ages for three years 1911 to
 1913 AZ Total deaths from vaccination for
 all ages in said three years. 31 Deaths from smallpox in children
 under five years. Deaths from vaccination in chil-
 dr9n mord of to sane fha Mize is sufficient 'O To The Editor.
 Dear sir:-d am thansfgl a4sf9I to t,se see that the papers are opening t2gla smallpox scare, which has unfcrtur- ately struck our city. Accompan nied by, naturally, much hyster1a, th1s as we all know the effect of fear on occasions of this kind. Without re- 1ecttng on either side those who be- lieve in vaccination as preventatiye, or those who do not. because there are honest and sincere persons on both sides. We can all subscribe to this that no intelligent freedom-l"v1ng American citizen will for a moment tamely submit to compuls5on when 1T | seeks to deprive him of the God-given | rights embodied in our Constitution of Life, Liberty and pursuit Of Happ1- l ness The question then interesting us most particularly on this occasion is, must a parent or guardian submit | to have his Or her child vaccinated against his or her wishes or af De ae- school? Uncle Sam wants all his fu- | ture citizens to be educated. He has | provided means whereby that can be | done and he requires every child to | take advantage of those means or | present a good and sufficient reason | why There is nothing wrong nor | unreasonable about that
 Laws have been made whereby the l schools are under control of persons l elected for the purpose of looking after the affairs of the schools. The persons so elected are known in as the Board of Fduca- ion This board is subject to certain state laws, one of which Is that 1t nav require children to be vaccinated before entering school. Now. for for the city of Bridgeport, we have (and such possession should De highly appreciated a board who Ire not compelling any child to be 7accinated before they can enter school they are honoring. decision arrived at many years ago and re- ;pecting the conscientious objections ,,5i They I