FOR INOCULATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 6

FOR INOCULATION

Sir, In both Dr. Williams' letter! he evades an important question, i.e. why did he use injections for the cure of cancer only a few months back? J would point out that the majority o) persons suffering from cancer and heart trouble have never had injections, also that cancer attacks some of the most healthy and saintly livinj people. In the Readers’ Digest of July 1931 appeared an article from which I giv« an extract: "Prior to the United States occupation of the Philippines about 40,000 people died of smallpox there each year. After an aggressive vaccination campaign, deaths dropped to nearly zero in 1909. Then the native legislature allowed the campaign to come to a standstill and ' smallpox came back with a terrible vengeance. In 1918 to 1919 there were 50,000 deaths, 90 per cent, of then unvaccinated children under ten ■ years of age. The disease raged : around the garrisons of vaccinated ' American troops, but only one soldier ' contracted it! After this dark visita- ' tion vaccination was resumed, and in 1925 there was only one recorded case in the island. "PROGRESS.”