The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-21

This discussion of vaccination by the Publicity Committee of the shows the same disregard of mathe- matics which has characterized pre- vious discussions by the same au- hority. s ities live completely intermingled. In every place, large or small, some are vaccinated and some are unvaccin- aHed. In ndany communities the
 The medical profession is. as the authors say, well aware that small pox, like other infectious and con tion in intensity" They are appar- ently not aware that small pox sell dom appears in this country in an in tense form, and that it is in fact, talk mously less fatal than whooping cough.
 The Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, has issued its twentieth annual report, Mortality Statistics for 1919.''
 In this year. in the registration area, deaths from all causes, were 1,096,436. Deaths in percentage from the following causes were: Measles. 8 tenths of ore per cent.
 Scarlet fever. 2 tenths of one per cent.
 Whooptng cough. tenths of one
 Diphtheria and croup, II tenth of one per cent. -
 Small pox. 1 thirtieth of ohe per cent.
 These ma1adies caused deaths as Diphtheria and croup, ...12,551 Whoop1ng cough, ......... 4,714 scarlet lever. 2,3S8 Measles, 3,296 Suicide, 9,732 Il.
 In 1919 small poX was running ahead. It was a bad year. The sta that the chance that a given person will die of whooping cough is about thirteen times greater than the probability that he will die of small pox. -;.-
 The probability that an .unvaccin- a'ted person will commit suicide is 27 times greater than the probability that he will die of small pox.
 Because of its failure to give con- sideration to the figures of mortal ity the medical profession, whenever a case of smallpox appears, beats the tom tom, and, having raised the fears of the people to the highest point, proceeds to create an artificial epidemic among them, with great physical suffering. and economic loss to the community. According to medical theory only the unvaccinated and the unprot ected can have small pox and the medical men must therefore regard.-the fig ures of small poX mortality as repre- sentative of the coursei of the disease as it runs, year in and year out among those who have toward it nothing save natural resistance.
 The manufacturers do the best they can to keep their virus pure" but frequent accide nts occur. --g.-
 For instance, on May IT, 1909, the U. S. Department of Agriculture re- leased for publication the facts re- garding an outbreak of foot. and mouth disease, as follows:
 ''Ihe recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Michigan New York and Pennsylvania started from calves used in the propagation of small pOx vaccine virus which had been contaminated with virus of foot and mouth disease and the contamin- ated strain iOf vaccine originally came from 8 foreign country.
 'Investigation also indicates that ease in New England in 19O2-3 were probably due to contaminated vac- cine of Japanese origin"
 These were cases in which cattle, used for the production of vaccin for human beings, were innocu1ated with foot and mouth by the vaccine virus. They were sold after the virus had been taken for human use, cattle.
 Many cases are recorded where vaccine virus has infected men, won- .en and children with the terrible scourge of foot and mouth
 Beefsteak is of animal origin. and ordinarily quite harmless, but not if injected into the blood stream The anti-toxins are dead substances though of animal origin. The virus of vaccine is a living substance with capacity for indefinite multiplication within the, host.