Show SMALL POX SALT LAKE CITY Dec 14 1881 Editors Herald There seems to prevail all over the country a tendency to the epread of small pox Here and there a single case proves a locus from which radiates numerous numer-ous others end in some places the dread disease seems to navesettled down to stay There is no possible excuse for this stateof affairs for if there is any one thing that is demonstrated dem-onstrated byjesperience it is that in vaccination we have a thorough protection pro-tection provided that the vaccination is thorough True there may be here and there a case in which vaccination fails to protect from a mild form of varioloid but so there sometimes occur cases ot varioloid after the atient has had true variola as the writer had occasion oc-casion to witness when in charge of a small pox hospital in 1871 Two of the patients were seamed with the scars of small pox and both had severe attacks of varioloid But there doea not remain the shadow of a doubt as to the protection oflered by vaccination as a general ruleNeither Neither need there be a fear of impure im-pure virus for the numerous vaccine forms at present in active operation yield an abundance of true bovine virus at prices so moderate us to leave nothing to bedesired and the fears so often entertained of transmitting blood poisons from impure persons to the subjects of vaccination need no longer exist Still a single vaccination vaccin-ation may not protect in all cases hence the neceesity of frequent revaccination re-vaccination till the system will no longer respond to the action of the virus proving that the protection is complete In order tc make aseuratce doubly sure it is always beat to follow a first vaccination bya Second shortly after the first and if it takes follow on by revaccinations till tho blood no longer responds to the virus Revaccination Re-vaccination are proper et short intervals in-tervals during the life of every one who has not had email pox or varioloid Vaccination should be compulsory and neglect of it beverly punished A disease so fatal l and eo loathsome as small pox should be stamped out of the list of pestilences and it can only be done bs governmental au thorny to be effective and there is no means of doing it only by compulsory com-pulsory vaccination The age when ignorance and stolid stupidity can be permitted to jeopardize public health and the lives of the community has passed and the tune for conforming to the laws ot health willingly and intelligently intel-ligently has come We must e acae tbe public mind up to a knowledge of the fact that no amount of personal cleanliness or municipal care ct the eurfoundiqgs of the individual I will protect him from small pcx In relation to vaccination practised after a person baa been exposed to I the infection of smell pox it seems to be pretty well settled that to be effective in protecting the party exposed ex-posed it must be done within five or six days after the exposure The incubative stage of small pox is twelve days from the exposure and all vaccinations performed after the middle period ot incubation fail to protect or even change the disease to varioloid It is well to have in mind that in all cases of of vaccination after exposure ex-posure to infection none but humanized human-ized virus should be used if it can be obtained because its period of incubation incu-bation is shorter and it matures three days sooner than bovine vims The above items are copied from avery a-very able treati onemall pox by the editor of the North Western Lancet and as from appearance we rasy be threatened with a small pox wave in theinear fnlurebey may not be uninteresting L unin-teresting to your numerous readers Respectfully I I 8 B Youxo MD I |