| Show MM PJ 1 Y VACCINATION OR SANITATION Important Facts for tho thes ol of the of lIu flu WWW To Do the Editor To many ot of the Public It Is ii becoming II a matter of deep concern where the th Valiant army mOlY of oC hM has gone to the sudden transition from that re recent cent excitement the doctors created to the comparative quietness that now DO feigns is IB occasion for tor Only a few weeks week ago the meal latal taco fac faction tion ot of agitators who were specially In Interested In vaccination a corn com Ill lal In Utah were In evidence Tho morning con on tamed In nearly every issue some BOme direct director or Indirect allusion to the herculean of ef efforts forts being put forth by these zealous guardians of the health and Ind the admiration ot of the tho whole community was dally daily challenged by their heroic dt In stamping out a threaten d This was IlS not all Misfortunes never neer come singly In addition to the torn ble scourge above mentioned th there re ap peered catL l some Bomo reA reason on to credit the state meat that thal actually 1 a few tew mUd mild cas cases s ot of smallpox existed and then hen thIs al alarm rm tug Ing fact was re reported to the er au t e greatest consternation pro pre all d Something must be done at once The Tho anxiety oc by the of was OS a 11 severe strain of itself but the thought that smallpox mould appear at this particular time and that too In a aton town ton where the disease was practically ally unknown called for instant action comes to him who ho walta vaitS The critical moment had arrived sand and the tho town must be vaccinated The tho lives ot of the people and mary other desirable conditions depended on It It must bo be bedone done tuch lin an opportunity had never neer presented itself before In Snit Salt Luke Lake City and nu nute the tho alleged ot of the theory teory could be ed It would woul J not do for the to lower their dignity to the tho extent of merely merel or urging Oh no The Tho public must be compelled to accept It rho fat fact thAt no In law existed In the State te to this high handed and arbitrary invasion of the peoples rIghts counted as al nothing What the people thought they knew was en over overshadowed shadowed by what the Were supposed to know kilO A pest house was children turned Into the street i to the rs for remaining Ut nt home and wholesale v vaccInatIon Indulged In among the poor helpless children whose patents parents In Inmany inmany many Instances lied had given this matter a moments thought and who were Ignorant ot of the uselesS U risks they were taking In accepting the unsupported unsupported ported statement ot of those who are supposed to know and who claim that vaccination prevents smallpox When hen a public servant lU In the elt City Council who hind llad no private axe to grind other than to serve sene the lie interests ot of the tho people who elected him ventured to Question the for the radical proposed he there and then publicly denounced as an ignoramus mus by one Of these courteous doctors who Is supposed to be informed In parliamentary and medical lore loreThe The same eminent physician and Ind dis ot of Chesterfield baa 1118 since Ince stated to toa toa a newspaper reporter that It would bo be boa bea a source of personal gratification to him It In SnIt Salt Lake took thu tho who denied his state statement m ment n t Now as It Is the writers purpose tu to puncture the bubble It Is Just as aB well to kno know how holY It came camo to bo be blown up and who did It Allusion has ha been made to both and I repeat the thc statement made In n a former letter that thal the ot of the board it In regard to vaccination Is but and ol I In the Interest of policy polley When we e have an entire town tined lined not many miles from Salt Lake besides the ties lIew cases reported In tho th city th the last four weeks week there thero Is as much danger now as then but It II would be imprudent to tax th the of the p people ople with n a continued enforce enforcement ment of those radical measures that w were re adopted at tint first and Ind which were out ot of to the teal real dAnger that existed oUr health healthy children lire arc again admitted to the to the courtIs no reason to conclude the question Is settled The tion fad ad be urged again and again and the tho only hope of keeping our chil children dren tree free from till this I corruption is 18 by inducing the to study tudy the ques for tor Wi W hero here append an article from The J journal Therapy published In unit VS 9 or 7 The Tho uI or the lour hour Dr Edward Jenner J discovered as Is saId that vaccination once performed with one markl mark prevented smallpox for tor life The ThO leoP e found that it Il did not Doctors then discovered that vaccina vaccination lion tion with tour four good marks prevented smallpox for life The people find that It does not The doctors next discovered that vac vaccination lie It if properly dolne mitigated small smallpox POL The people that It does 1201 The doctors afterwards discovered that revaccination would prevent smallpox If or successfully performed The Tho peoNe find that It does not Th the doctors then thel dIscovered that om dR cleat v In Infancy and sue hUC revaccination nt at the age oge ot of prevented deaths from Crom sinai pox The Tho People find It otherwise The doctors found Cound that vaccination was the means ot of communicating serl sen senous Ou ous am disorders such us skin disease dilellA scrofula syphIlis and leprosy The p peoPle had already made the same dl discovery cove The doctors have discovered that vacCination has lost Its protective ve virtue and are aro recommend recommendIng Ing from the calf and In India from the buffalo and donkey The Tho soy say that vaccinatIon cannot lose losen losea n a protective ve Virtue It Il never TIle rhe doctors In I a desperate effort to reinstate a mischIevous and discredit discredited ell ed system Ire are all an n a last resort mending vaccine virus The people declare that this I is only a anew new imposture The doctors discovered that a small pox lOX panic anlo ts is 1 a golden shower to them In tM the shape or of vaccination fees feell and medical att attendance on the te ed d sufferers Which the people cannot d deny ny The doctors rs have hlo discovered that In order to ke keep p up vaccinatIon the tho artl arti des cles ot of th the n cr creed ed mu l bo con can changed The people find tile the same Thu doctors doctor ar are threatening to moe Inoc Inoculate us against cholera hydrophobia consumption and by means o 0 foreign lymph and aud viruses oil alt ot or which are disease e prod products The people ut esk la Is It all for tuune The Tho doctors found that the people not submit to vaccination with without without out coercion by fines of oC goods or wrath rom which o the people eople demand The l find that is not notto notto to be got rid ot of b by with the by making hom homes s health The doctors aver that they have hao to 10 the contrary The people are discovering that live draInage e overcrowding constructed we III 13 II eh llla food and deficient water supply ate are the tho causes ot of smallpox epIdemIcs The doctors must be compelled to make mako the sane die cove covery Any medical theory which eeLs neidO the tho laws las ot of that the tho spreading of oC natural or artificial dla ease eaRe can be advantageous to the rom earn Is II misleading ml and to c n sense and any teacher whatever hi illa assumption ot of authorIty title or degree who cites such doctrine Is a of common an enemy of Ie tM the hUe ho homan man e The Tho first duty ota of a parent parentis is 18 to hi lila offspring and to resist t te e every ry attack u upon On their lit at any artil every cut t no neatter from what Quarter It mil may eom how tong long will the feelings of and ami permit us to 10 submit to have our bur blood poisoned In order that Oit the claim ot of medical mayle medical be withheld d df f i 1 I j i i Q l T IOU FOR What etc aro I 1 VaccinAtion among other othor evil reo to cults causes abscesses ing bolls boils convulsions consumption eczema etu eruptions er syphilis In India thu tho South Amen Amerl en co South Africa and the tho Sandwich Is Island Islands lands land vaccination n Is n a prolific c cause caulI of leprosy the tho most loathsome Incurable and repulsive disease Ich affects the human race One has hILS given evidence before the tho Royal Commission on vaccination Of t cases of serIous injury InJun and Sf Sd due to vaccina lion chapter chapt r and verse 2 Vaccination weakens the and renders It more mOM liable to tf take other diseases ales the publio health TIle The death rate has greatly dImInished l both In Switzer land and In Leicester since lInt compulsion has hns been end and vaccination nearly discontinued 3 Vaccination takes the money out of the tho ot of the pee pie pic WHAT VACCINATION DOES NOT OT DO 4 does not prevent smallpoX 5 does not mitiGate I smallpox Vaccination therefore Is 1 a sin against nature and compulsory nation Is n a crime against humanity N y S City Feb 21 1900 |
