VACCINATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 4

VACCINATION.

Sir, —Will you allcnr mo to enlarge a | iittlo ,on your very interesting article .' . .on vaccination appearing .in i your . issiio of March ;10. With ' regard to the paragraph Beaded),.l 'Purify, . Purify," ' do you not' -.think ..th'atVithia 'might'/give :,a,wrong..' impression ;■ that tho: iminitiatcd !, might.'think' .that; a healthy calf was .used for . getting vaccine from, instead of. ono suffering from a repulHealthy calves, I understand,; Cannot grow the matter from which vaccino is made. Also,-you say that only about one •person in 14,000 dies : as the direct result of vaccination. But, .sir,- you must romember that this is . practicilly..- ! an ' unvaccinated country,: and''that'there "has never been an ;authenticated case of small-pox ,amßK2«t the residents of New; Zealand. Yet, if areryone in ,the Dominion were .vaccinated .every ibro, yoarSj and vaccination is only;; claimed: to give immunity for .five,years, (vide pamphlet: issued by the' Health Department), -you would have eight deaths immediately 'attributable to: vaccination.: every year—l am,; etc., / P.R.P. ■ Nelson,' March 12.

.iv Siry-r-In-your paper of the '13th'-inst. I :was pleased to read a letter sigiicd "M.D." on yaccihation, in which ho strongly disap- . proved of -the;- fad - of ' the renowned '• Jbriner. .I..would'liko'., t-o' givo my opinion !pn the sub-: ject.' plsco; cow-pox Js -|iornci whit' siiailax' 'to- a ■•.losth'sbmp ..dißeasb.. iri.',.tho jhorsftj' commonly ;,c*llfcdi.grQ*sß. .".Cbirtj»x is an eruption oil the . udder aridAoats.y'.andi the; animal which contracts it .febrile action, arid of ' the' skiii, and .after 'a- few>.'davs an outbreak.-of . hard., red spots,' very pamful, l accompanied with swelling, follows, and until _ they . burst they, cause considerable suffering to the cow; ' Indeed, the; milker, has'a. difficult job. to milk tho. animal. .Now, sir, I wish '• tb. point out the;<3ahger 'of. vaccination; and after, reading "M.D.'s' 'letter, I consider its, eficicy .very, doubtful and,, I . think, 'dangerous. To .subject'an infant to tils rile action of eow-ppx ip. villainous. Wo find a great number of deaths lii .children caused by diarrhoea, consumption of' the' boirolsj etc. . Cow-pox exhibits the same..symptoms' in the animal.. Tho calf is,..tho subject chosen to prcpiro tho lymph, in, and is tested by the. tuberculin 1 test;... .vA'M.D."..; states that.,this..test cannot bo relied on." It is'.a'terrible, risk to inbculateSnth 'tlio'lymph:'of ! a' dTead diteaea carries ctf its .tpnS/of' thousands'-yearly. After due examination it is inoculated with, OTW-pox, tho" dlsbaso" 'thiifc : rin "a' malignant form causes the death' of » great number of cattle, and ' after :tho | pustulos form, th« lymph . is- collected, ' prepared, ' sterilised, and bottled up carefully, and handed- over. ,to the authorised vaccinators for the benefit of the innoconts,. many of whom go to the gravo, only leaving a survival of the fittest. - For'what?'' To provent a disease that is. net in.,tins, country.,"M.D.", points "out : tliat''-/tuberculosis; . is'"' making great strides, sinco. .tho. . adoption : of ..-, tub.eroulm.H l ,Soi';l. <; think';humanity ."dearly' for the; humbug2?ry : .o£ysp-cilled "sbuled-.-scicßtists^—l.'am, ctqi'A'' A MILLIGAN. 'Wellington, March 13. ' -