Show Uw r ITHE VACCINATION QUESTION QUESTIONS I S M 1 II 11 M o the greal at spread of oC From tIle the which are ide lIt III the le to th o excited one ha li onIe Ole reader and InsomUch na as tb lbS are mado und that ato sl to tho general w can t the h e 6 apace n CA CAw CAk I If you oU II like k e if comments t I make k a CeW that they took the fI firSt t ll Inc Vt sold Mid to hoo vaS a the thO by up reported town commonlY and unscrupulous laymen nt ora WaS wall P II monEY lOn rankIng II t nB t doctors There l IA ais t f tile Iho that 0 1 ft Q n needs d 9 I r nd yet t while I am sure surer r doctor Is ent entirely I I y n above b tb gergge t are two sides ary Tire The ea Is held forth Corth r the public that ihie doctors would 1 tile the more money QU cut t ot of tire tho d Car f smallpox yetO allowed to spread if the be true It It Ih the gt This t the smallpOX hut fortunately the worst J a o com come e fl In i 1 small proportion of tho iho entire lit 1 r tile tho disease and taking r I tW dollar for or dollar I sue sus tb W vaccinatIon will to f the Iho that thaL t best lit At any rate It tt I much pi Nf till tr rr th rho doctor I statement that ITh rea reali II Th ThIs PO pe ms Willi 10 0 covered 15 tho I reader would set get an ant anC that Impression from t C It What I lIft aa said that Hn Eng lad Id In 10 the 1351 fifty years had y prop reduced th d death ath athra t in dl fiU per er cent ra raTh n a statement waif made nit as to tob IV this hi was smallpox how b much nuch how scarlet te etc This Thill credit to sanita t T 15 tY In accord with the Ideas leM 01 ne no men ot of their o own n retool disseminate gross liS to the virtues ot of otc c It Ih the medical and fit it health were In favor ot of compulsory whIch Is the tho only true mr n against oil all contagious a d epidemic diseaSes It the tho citizens bl be ith them to 1 a man Some Borne were made malic In to rc ard to 10 the lbS wonderful dc ot of mol mar In ho German army tm but the Iho h ts o are that the death rate In th the Getman arm army from pox fOx WAS per vent cent gr greater ater than emong th Ib civilian laUon of the flame ag age In tho be the ho dP th rate from ItS cent of oC th the entire f but In the tho one hundred years car it II been reduced b 5 to per cent or of the hc entire ri Now Noll if IC In one hund nod yearS since vaccination has hasty ty the acknowledged aid of most been able to reduce the from of one oe Pt r how long will vili It b In Intra tra smallpox altogether publIc are given to t understand thu ver er grave results may be bc expect td from associating the th itei aleJ but we e have most excellent Proof hoW that Ihal In an whore where nil all expo d that the tho vaccinated are the very erY first to take the and In one In vac ae 4 came down with the tho Lefure the tho first unvaccinated ens tok IlOk It ItIn ItIn In presenting n a vast array orray ot of statistics to the the got t mixed for Cor lit iii one place rm d that lion In Infancy affords an almost lib ab from rom ox up to about aboul ten years of oC age while only R a tel fw lints farther tarther under the try Cr dine ume headinG we find that out of m 1 Vaccinated d children under ten years ears of alt k d b by smallpox i on onI Iy I that thal recovered were vera pitted This should hould 1 be 0 most Irot of course to the Intelligent public that vaccination vr small 1105 x The people are further urther ch n to under that not I a sIngle reputable In nil ot of the tho great State ot of ottah tah t is opposed to 10 vaccination We v uld Just like to Inform the general that this assertion l In merel merely a matter nailer ot of o a among on certain The disreputable physician are not given clen to gato nor II tl cutin casting reflections Ul upon on the socIal rt of oC the ab physicians whO do In and Re Respectfully fIe yours G ci W HARVEY M r D DOF OF T tire Editor I t add m my protest to those al aI ready published hed against the action of Ibe tb school In r relation to fry E ry As I It the tho school board ate Br not our masters mailers but our servants to adminIster our school affairs accord accordIng Ing to tire the law defining their duties and It if they to do not WISh to accept t un II der theo conditions condition there is II no law to compel compol them to do so 80 It would ho be beabout about as reasonable to prohibit every overy everyone one from attending a theater or other I PublIc gathering without n a certificate ot of vaccination In tire the course or of my experience have I been beon exposed to smallpox three times and so far have hae escaped ed It I 1 10 ciliated whoa when young because at th that t time In l England everything was WIlS done according to law we ve were christened vaccinated had the croup and scarlet fever feer with n a monotonous monotonous certainty even een our prayers were arranged hundreds of oC years yearl before hand accord accordIng n nIng Ing to the tho statte made and Provided Some Somo of oC the tho doctors following went vont so ar as to try to 0 the size ot of families but without much suc success cess ceM especially with the farm IMn laborers oM anti tire the itinerants Tire The first time In when my sister who hn had been beon duly ed cd took the tho disease and had n a very hard time lIne ot Of It I 1 lived II Ia the arne house m my mother attended tl tD h her r and I irro ro pared Mr Jur men meals Is I went vent to work as usual no one In the vicinity know of It except the tho doctor and ourselves rho second time was In Brooklyn N NY NY Y nr Clinton had Irad contracted tire the disease on his journey from frono he here and Was sick In the tho same hoUse as my myself self curd and family I passed his hili door every time I vent In or out and the ho lady of the tho house used to take care enre ot of loin him and attend to h her r family also I 1 went to work all as uSUAl The third time was WIlS about a year car later also In Brooklyn where my youngest child then about three months old took look the dl disease ease I called In Dr Ward Q a physician who ho attended attend to him hut did not advise vaccination to myself and fatally family whIle the disease was In the tho house but gave us lactic medicine we did rIot not call In the neighbors people h In the same house know nothing ot of it II I went to my work ns as usual with no further Inconvenience to myself and family In 1 all these cases th there re was no fuss tuss no excitement no yellow ellow tinge not even evenn evena n a brass band but just plain ordinary common sense and ond no one beld tire tho patient appeared to be an any the worse for tor It As a general thing our are fairly healthy and do not have thel systems poisoned by the prenatal In of oC Whisky and tobacco with other concomitants of oC modern lion tion and do ne need Inoculation to 10 bring out tire the corruption In sus SUI as the they mo may do In other localities We Vo have hao had considerable legislation concerning medical affairs and what does It all amount to have wo we any less or tire are diseases mort uc treated I doubt It Ilia It iv said to be In the Interest ot of the public and of public health but 1 fall Call to see seo It In that t light The rho principal part of oC this legislation Is In the Interest of oC tIre the doctors wholly And solely It Is nothing more or less than legislation In the interest ot of a trades union under another name at attempting attempting tempting to prohibit those who do not belong to 1 a certain organization from practicing In that vocation There was wasa a time when the Homeopaths Homeopath were to ta tabooed booed In the tho same way but their pho phe phenomenal success has compelled It If nil all the doctors outside the I pale ale were and lost their cases there would bo be no trouble but they are often otten successful where the diploma doctors have hae fatted I would prefer preter a doctor of gOOd moral character who ho was not soaked In whisky or lobac tobacCo co to 0 any of oC the tho high clAss who wiro were glen given to 0 such luch habIts Tire majority of the here or their parents have hlo come from Crom other places and have thrown the ou out of tire the saddle und and the they are not disposed to lot the tho doctors take that place and rIde them with sharp spurs As for the party who made himself elf conspicuous In the tho City Council a C few W evenings since It would be well for him to know that the tho of Salt Lake City Cily do not believe that th tire sun rIses and sets In Iris his cranium or that they are obliged to 0 sneeze when hoo Ire he takes snuff In fact there thero are folks who rho have haye havethe the Iho same opinion ot of 1 a doctor that I have of oC an engineer that when Iro ho be cornel cornea 1 prominent as a politician ho ml might ht as vell elt give up his profession proCessIon as It Is patent to alt all that ho he has found a vocation Is much more congenial to hl his caliber than tire the practice of oC his hi profession There Thoro used to be n a fable ot of n a fox Cox who had lost his tail in a trap and was very cry anxious that tire tho other foxes foxe should 01 low his because It was so 80 much more convenient but the conclusion of oC tire the majority was to 10 walt wait till they got caught before the they would tr try the oper ope nUon atlon If those who wiro are aro tO so anxious for Cor vac ao like lIko It so well let them take It Iton ItIn on In both arms both bolh legs or all over oyer It if they so desire but kelP keep their han hantle s oft ott those who do not desire it II WM J SILVER |