EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 2 August 1913, Page 5

EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS.

In Auckland there are only eighty doctors. Twenty thousand of the population of the city have been vaccinated, and so many people are seriously ill. as the result of vaccination that there are scarcely enough doctors to go round. Several leading medical men, seen, by a Star representative on Wednesday, stated that never in their experience had they known such serious results to follow vaccination. Patients are ill in bed, racked with excruciating pains. A marked constitutional disturbance —rise of temperature, headache, and general malaise—is naturally to be expected, particulaily amongst adults who have never been vaccinated before, but during the past three weeks a large percentage of Auckland people who underwent the operation have suffered very severely indeed. Temperatures a 6 high as 104 have been quite commonly recorded, followed by^ all kinds of extraordinary complications. The reason cannot be "ascribed to lack of care on the part of the vaccinators, since in more than one case doctors report dire consequences in their own homes. One instance is quoted in which two members of a doctor's household hare been in such pain that morphia has had to be injected to induce sleep and relieve sufferihgl i

It is openly asserted that soroethinj, must be radically wroncr with tho quality of es^f lymph that has been received in Waverley fcays the Patea Press). Many are sufferinc severely from the effects of vaccination. One patient has been unconscious for throe, days following t^<\ vaccination, anotheis for one clay, while in another ense th.-. injection has been followed by the apipearance in the face of a suspicioug looking rash. • l]