Smallpox Vaccine
(Air : The Rosary.)
The scratches on my arm, dear sir, Like burning coals of fire, they seem. How many microbes did you there inter ? Small pox vaccine ! Small pox vaccine ! Each prick a scratch ; each scratch an itch To add to sea-sick maiden's woe, [ ask each friend if hers has took , But each one answers : " No." Oh, little bugs that course and run ! Oh, itchy skin ! Oh, swollen scar ! I vub each scratch and strive m vain to think
The stuff has took, dear sir : The stuff has took ! — By a Nurse m Isolation (E.W.) These original verses were made up for the weekly concerts on the Hospital Ship ' c Maheno." They are the concoctions cf the nurses' brains, and all relate to doings on the ship. They made great fun as you can guess. We drawled out the vaccine one m the most doleful way. (Extract from nurse's letter).
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 4, 1 October 1915, Page 198
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152Smallpox Vaccine Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 4, 1 October 1915, Page 198
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