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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 19 August 1910, Page 3

The great value of vaccination in preventing the spread of smallpox wa ; again proved in the treatment of the passengers bv the E.M.S. Otway ir April. In view of the successful results achieved, medical officers of the Victorian Health Department have been amused (says th'e "Argus") by attempts made by opponents of vaccination to persuade readers of English .journals thajt the latest outbreak of smallpox showed that vaccination did not keep passenger* from becoming affected with the disease. Dr. Burnett Ham, chairman of the Board of Public Health, said in Melbourne the ather day that it was only necessary to examine the Victorian cases to "refute the statements of antivmccination advocates. The doctors and nurses who looked after the patients w-ere vaccinated before going to the Quarantine Station, and although'they were constantly in attendance on patients they all escaped infection. The history of th'e .Victorian cases showed that two of the deaths were those of persons in middle life, who had not been vaccinated since infancy, and the third death wa.--that of a woman who bad been revaccinated the dav before she became ill.

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