The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913. VACCINATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 64, 21 July 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMO NT SETTLER. MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913. VACCINATION.

'J hough doctors disagree on many matters they are almost unanimous in their whole-souled support of Jentier's claim that vaccination is the greatest safeguard against smallpox. [lt is over a century since the famous doctor made the discovery that the boy lie had inoculated simply could not be infected with the deadly disease which had previously wrought such periodical havoc in every part of the old world, and there has, therefore,

been plenty of time to take records and work out averages. Experience lover this long period shows clearly that the protective influence of vaccination, though it may lesson as years pass oil, is never entirely lost. Possibly the greatest example we have of the immense value of vaccination is' that of Germany, which country, when) the Franco-Prussian war broke out I had 210,000 soldiers vaccinated, while 1 France had only 10,000. The result' was that during the war France lost' 2,3,500 men from smallpox, while Germany lost only 316. Statistics, I most carefully recorded, of the cases in all recent British epidemics, and 1 [the mortality attaching thereto, con-! clusively prove that tire death-rate among lie im vaccinated was infinitely! greater than among the vaccinated,! even though (he inoculation was, in the majority of eases, not recent. Inj 1901 and 1903 there were epidemics! in the United States, in which i 1 was! only 2 per cent. In one Philadelphia' outbreak it was 27 per cent, in 7201 ! cases, while in the Glasgow epidemic! of 1000-01 it reached 52 per cent, in I the unvaccinatcd and 10 per cent in! the vaccinated. That there is grave j Imenace in the fact that the people 0 f New Zealand to-day are practically nn unvaccinateil community, is the opinion of all our leading medical men. ! Special opportunities are now offered For public: vaccination, and the path! of wisdom clearly seems to he to take : advantage of the fact and submit j to inoculation. With the abolition of i the careless methods of earlier da\s,

nil the prohibition of ann-to-arm vac-

illation, danger of infection or pol-

lution from one's fellow.* has di.sapicnrcd, and with ii any reasonable ohcclion which might in days gone bj mve been adduced against vaccination