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Show TRUTH ABOUT VACCINATION. Oennany'H Wonderful Success In Combating Com-bating Smallpox. In n recent lecture dollvered at Ronm Dr. RlzzozKcro made a deep Impression by his summing up of the urgument for vacBlnttlon. lb said: Germany stands alone In fiillllllng In great mensuro tho demands of hygiene, hy-giene, having in conecqueneo of tho calamitous smallpox epidemic of 187D-71 187D-71 enacted lint law of 1871 which "makes vaccination obligatory lu the llrst year of lire und rcvacclnnlinti also obligatory at thu tenth year." What was the result? With a population of 50,000,000, having ill 1871 lost 143,000 lives by smallpox, sliu found by bur law of 1874 thu mortality diminished so rapidly that today tliudiseaso numbers only 110 victims a year. These cases, moreover, occur almost exclusively In tow ns on her frontier. If It were true, continued Professor Illzzozzero, that a good vaccination does not protect iiom smallpox, we ought to II nd In smallpox epidemics that the disease diffuses It-elf In the well-vncclnated no less than In tlio non vucclnated countries. But It Is not so, lu 1870-71, during tlio Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian wur, the two peoples interpenetrated inter-penetrated each other, the German having its civil population vaccinated oDilonallv. but Its itrmv cnmnletelv re- vaccinated, while tlio Froncb (population (popula-tion ami imny alikw) wcro vaccinated perfunctorily, lioth were attacked by smallpox, hut thu French army numbered num-bered WJ.0OO deaths by It, while tho German army had only 1:78; and lu the same tent, breathing the samo air, thu French wounded were heavily vl.-ltod by thu disease, while the German wouuded, havluir been revacclnnted, had not a single easo. London Lancet. |