The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-08

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questions of general interest
only. and then only through
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and fifty years apo and has proved
itye.f over and over again. II has
caused a disease Of the most
h.deoas aspect almost to disap-
pear from the earth. And yet the
carelessneSs Of man has allowed
this wonderful weapon to fall into
neglect and | believe We have a
larger uRvaccinated community
against smallpox on our hands
than we have had fora hundred
years.
Only cranks and crack pots do
not believe in smallpox vacclna-
ton. The challenge Of Osler still
holds good. He told an anti-yac-
cinationist that he would take ten
Of his unvaccinated fellow con-
verts and ten vaccinated doctors
into a smallpox ward and let
tFeHN. wlngle with the patients.
Then in a week when nine OF the
unvaccJnated had come down with
the disease, he would nurse them
tenderly. take care that the two
or three who went blind were
placed in an institution, and would
read the service of the burial OF
the dead over the one or two who
died. and would pay their widows
4 thousand dollars apiece for any
one of. the vaccinated doctors
similarly exposed who came down
with the disease.
lnfrequent Tragedy
Smallpox has not appeared very
frequently in our world in the
last few years, but Just frequently
enough to show that it is only
sleeping, not dead Where these
diseases hide out during the long
peri ds when they can get no
foothold, | do not know, but it
is certainly a fact that they do.
Last fall we were informed by
our newspapers that in a small
town on the Atlantic Coast an
epidemic Of smallpox had broken
out and the authorities were GO
ing to quarantine. Well, you can't
quarantine against smallpox, that
has been thoroughly proved. The
epidemic was not controlled until
all the unvaccinsted people in the
neighborhood had been vacci-
mated.
A few years ago in Oskaloosa,
IVA. a man came down with what
Mas supposed to be influenza and
then it broke out into smallpox.
Two hundred other people went to
bed with it until the unvaccinated
community had become vacci-
mated. Then It all died down.
Two Vaccinations
These instances are enough to
show that smallpox is still around
and that we all need protection.
Have your child vaccinated any
time before the end of the first
year and again at about six years.
II you can't remember whether
you have been vaccinated or not,
go and do it today.
In a group of students at the
Manhattan State College, those
who have had one vaccination
showed 20 per cent more i'm
munitY than those who had none.
Only ten American states re-
quire compulsory vaccinations.
Our record of 10000 cases Of
smallpox a year is an unenviable
one compared to the average Of
IL cases a year in Canada, where
vaccination is compulsory.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
L. f. B.: Ny daughter had an
attack Of rheumatic fever in 1910,
followed by some damage to her
heart. Since then she has had two
more attacks Of rheumatic fever.
Would a change Of climate pre-
vent a recurrence of these at
tacks? Would Florida be a suit
able climate?
Answer: Removal to a warm
climate would certainly be help
ful. Florida is all right, or the
dry desert climate Of Arizona, or
New Mexico.