Show YOUR YOUR CHILDREN CHILDREN- mim i i il i i mi O cr e Roberts Barlon I Blo Cl by b NEA I have la a lete letter from ta a research laboratory 1 atory st stating that ha the l c gre greatest test prevalence lence of diphtheria and smallpox small small- P pox p occurs U CUl during luring October Nov m. m and ber and December l i. i L e Lear ar hat ti the average y young ung p parent has to the e idea tt F f greatly terrors of diphtheria diphtheria- ar are are- overrated Jt U takes ono n of f My y generation wh who ha hag seen 15 many many as as seven in one family die of theria thenia to fold to fold his hands hands' and id thank the o f f for orthe the gif t of- of anti of f l Smallpox still sti claims a a death death- toll ol u that it might b be st startling t s rn me of ot tile the e 1 r ed b but t only in In communities not riot vac vac- In these thesa places and andin in In the these places u. u only there there Is still sti an n no o occasional fa eup of the an epidemic T Twenty seven thoUsand thousand thousand thou thou- sand cases cases' ses' ses were nere lep report report- lt cd ed Dear in the tiie Ut United l d States Stales Not one person who had hail been vaccinated vac vac- within t ten n years eaIS died There were over cases cases alone In inon one city Diphtheria is a form form of blood poison I it affects affects' not only the throat but it I poison other parts of the body well as-well affects It-affects the heart particularly lar Anti Anti- toxin Antitoxin toxin Ant toxin may save save- the life We but the deadly germ gem ver very likely h has hs s gotten gotjen ot en in its Is w work rk of reducing the activity of the vital orga organs organ's s before the toxin anti toxin ant W as 5 given I have had a diphtheria diphtheria heart heart for twenty ye years rs Had Ha I had ha antitoxin anti anti- ant ant- toxin toxIn as a preventative pre instead of ofa ofa ofa saved a cure I would have hae been months and years ears cars of 01 anxiety and suffering I firmly believe beleve that state boards of ot health and child clinics know what they are ae doing when they insist O on v vaccination for tor smallpox and the immunizing Serum se serm serum se- se rum rm for diphtheria The Time next thing I hope will wil be a apr pr prevalence for infantile Infante paralysis The germ has not been isolated No o cure is yet known |