VACCINATION—AFTER-EFFECTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 9

VACCINATION—AFTER-EFFECTS.

(To the Editor.} Sir, —T read -with considerable amount of surprise youi article on the above subject in' 'WeQncHday'ft iesoe. Tho article stated .tha t eevccal leading medical men stated that ncvor in their experience bad they kno-vn such snrioiM rceulta to follow vaccination, patients arc ill in -bed racked with excruciating pains, and, further, thct one doctor stated that' "tho lymph in undoubtedly to blsme;" -Now, ftir, is no protest, to be entered on behalf of piieh a lacije number of 'women and children who have -been experimented upon, and consequently made to sufferluineecesarijv'/ T certainly think some drastic action nfrnald he taken. When an epidemic ariiy*, wo want to know tbat Ibcec in authority arc competent to handle it. Ynnr article poinls to the urgent necessity of 3 Marching inquiry into our Health .Pr-partmcnf's methods. j,' have watched v/iih pleasure the able and independent way Dr. .yiorr-nce Keller is handling mattcra brought before our Hospital Board, njir! I trust that eho (whose sympathies arc Always- with the poor and afflicted) will endeavour, through the Tiwrti, to got the Government to lake action on the linm 1 have indicated. Our local medical men, in their own inti-rcf,-!*, -should insist upon the ma?ter lieirr? til,roughly inquireil into, The community, sir, are indebted f.o you ior your very valuable article.— I am, etc, CITIZEN. — , j