PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE WITH SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12824, 17 October 1911, Page 7

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE WITH SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION.

To the Editor

Sir, —About the strongest paper wo have ever seen on this topic appeared in "The Lancet," of London, July 22, tho writer being C. Killick Millard, M.D., medical health officer of Leicester (England). I would like you if you would to publish the substance of it: Twentyeight years ago Leicester abolished vaccination; to-day, abou£ 90 per cent, of the young population is unvaccinated. During this period ihree epidemics of smallpox occurred —in 1892-3-4, the lastnamed having 321 cases. There have been also repeated outbreaks of the disease, due entirely to importations of tho disease, but in no instance has it spread through the large unvaccinatpd population, a population of about 200,r. 000. He also says: " Nor has it ever been necessary during my term of office to close a school on account of smallpox. Surely such an experience would be impossible if orthodox theories about the dangers of the spread of smallpox amongst the unvaccinated persons were correct." Concerning "missed cases," Dr. Millard says that "they are essentially a product of vaccination. Sr iiHich is this the case that smallpox in vaccinated subjects may easily baffle the most expert diagnositician, much more so the general practitioner." Mr John H. Bonner, of the same town, in a recent letter to the "Leith Herald,'* gives figures taken from the official records of the Health Department of Leicester before and after vaccination^ was abolished in that city, abolished in the face of all kinds of opposition and threats from the official doctors. They show a decreased mortality . among adults since the practice of vaccination was stopped, and an equally noteworthy increase in general health. Out of 7147 children examined, only seven showed any trace of tuberculosis. During the compulsory vaccination era, the death rate"*per 1000 ranged as high as 26.9; since the abolition of the practice the rate has gradually declined to 11.2. If these figures are true (they are official), compulsory ' vaccination is the most insidiously deadly and subtle pestilence that can afflict a community. Is that why in vaccinating countries only cancer has increased from 500 to 700 per cent?—l am, etc.,

ANTI-VACCINATIONIST