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Show A NTI-VACCINATION. Salt Lake Cm, Nov. ;;0, 1K71. Editors Jlerald: I seo by a paragraph in a column headed Lightening Plashes, in yesterday's yester-day's Her alti , that tho prevalence of small-pox in New York is said to be i owing to the general neglect of vaccination. vaccina-tion. am Euprised that such an idea ! should be tolerated lor one moment, obviously ridiculous as it is on the very j faco of it. Is not such a report calculated calcu-lated to do serious mischief to the public pub-lic health, by concealing the veal causes of small-pox, viz disregard of the laws of health? The advocates of vaccine filth, i". e. cow-pox, are already taking further advantage of public credulity by professing to ascribe prophylatic virtues to pig-pox and oilier species of uastinc?s. Professor F. W. Newman, of London university says, "It is notorious noto-rious to science and to common sense alike, that an unhealthy system is more liable to any or every contagion than a healthy one: bonce, to make a healthy child less healthy, (by vaccination) in order to enable it to resist small-pox, is a paradox." Tho prejudice against it is rightful. Careful enquiry into the results of a half century of tho vaccination vaccin-ation mania, will convince any candid person that vaccination is only a do-1 ceitful scheme invented by knaves who would rather prey upon other people's pockets, by means of any system of chicanery, than gain a living by honest work. Experience has proved that the vaccinated are twice as liable to smallpox small-pox as the unvaccinatcd, for in Eng-: Eng-: land, in an average of four years, the vaccinated two-thirds of tho population popula-tion furnished four-fifths of tho smallpox small-pox cases, while the unvaccinated one-third one-third furnished only one-fifth. In addition ad-dition to this, eighty-four percent, of all the patients in tho smad-pox hospitals hos-pitals havo been vacciuatcd. j As this is sent in the interest of out- raged and helpless infants, I shall be glad I if you insert it in your paper. Yours respectfully, ' Georue Brunswick. |