Show i its ar erects THE opinion which is very prevalent and which many well weli informed people entertain that constitutional diseases may be communicated through vaccination is now disputed on the authority of marson blarson a physician in the london small pox hospital w who 0 is said to have performed more than vaccinations ci he never saw other diseases communicated with the vaccine matter and has no faith in the popular reports that they are BO so communicated negative testimony only but still very good as far aa a it goes it IL Is difficult however if his hili views be correct to account for the wide spread belief that constitutional dlee diec diseases asea are thus communicated munica ted the writer griter has himself met with at least one instance of scrofula acro fula which the parents of the child affirmed had been communicated tolt toil to it by impure vaccine matter their statement was sustained by the healthy appearance of the children of the tha same family who had not been thus vaccina vaccinated ted and by the paro bare parents juts whose appearance certainly gave no evidence of scrofulous taint we have heard of another theil thell case base that of aWell a well weli known gentle gentie gentlemen in this city who of a healthy stock very nearly lost his bis ilfe life the disease attacking him at the time of lis his its vaccination and leaving per upon him cases of this kind are probably familiar to many of our readers but whether they would stand the scrutiny of eci scientific entina investigation probably some might question those who contend that diseases diseased are not cot eo communicated think it is possible that the introduction of the vaccine matter by disturbing the general gehle gekle ral rai health may furnish opportunity for a cont cant disease dibease to app appear arand and to have but they assert that even thim thin la Is frequent ka re pt pi vaccination advocates its bilote to prove thab that chodan the tho dd iger igen of drath froin emmil email pox Is almost annihilated by his this hia system they say isy that it Is indisputable that thorough tho rough by th the a best beat chya phys clans lerote acts the system against small pox aa as surely as an on attack of the disease itself would from fj pm an article in the tibe kew new york we e quote aa fol lowa lowe vv in london condon during the ten years ending 1800 there were 1780 deaths from smallpox small pox ina lna tn a population lation of fifty years before parliament had bad made mado of smallpox small pox a penal offense onie ofie nse in consequence of the amount of disease artificially produced by a very imperfect and unsafe method of performing the operation dr jenners first work discovering the true secret of vaccination as since adopted and used was published in 1798 1708 A new oace face was put on the matter thenceforth in fourteen years to 1855 the tho population of london being there were but deaths from smallpox small pox ifeng in england from 1851 to 1863 the annual mortality from this cause diminished from per million to in sweden between 1810 and 1850 it fell off from 2050 to IM in westphalia westphal la from 2641 to in bohemia 4 00 to in berlint berlin from to in copenhagen from ti to these statements aro are given by dr df seaton ina lna in a recent english work a very severe epidemic of small pox raged in london of the children who died and children constitute a large largo majority of the entire mortality seven eighths it is estimated might have been saved if ali all had been vaccinated vaccina ted before the age of two months the examination and treatment of 15 case mr marsouin Mar sonin the london smallpox small pox hospital proved that the likelihood of death to well wall vaccina vaccinated ted persons was one fourteenth of that to which the badly vaccina vaccinated ted were exposed vibe fhe latter died clied at the rate of in a hundred the former at the rate of or while of the unvaccinated vaccina ted there perished in every hundred of these noog patients nineteen in every hundred had previously had smallpox if these figures can bs be relied upon and they are taken from the report on vaccination presented at the last annu al at meeting of the american social science association they show that vaccination is an excellent preventive and one which parents should avail themselves of to guard against smallpox if the other statement be true that constitutional diseases are noncom munica ted through vaccination then the fears which many have entertained respecting it are groundless wo we have had those fears we have felt that we would rather run some risks of or small pox than to vaccinate a child with matter the healthiness of which might be questionable and though marbon mareon and others may be correct in their ideas still we should advise parents who have not vaccinated vaccina ted their children and who intend to do so to be careful in the selection of the material used even should it be granted that thai constitutional diseases are not communicated by this means the use of healthy matter will certainly do no harm barm and be just aa as effective as any other othier kind hind anere is no difficulty in obtaining clean vaccine lymph in this country and aa as we bear occasionally of smallpox small pox in california and othar other places around us the vaccination of children ought to be attended to it Is a 11 preventive of if which 1 we should avail ourselves f A PARIS correspondent of a new york paper speaks of illie the limping young prince imperial he says the child hag has a sickly look his hia pio plo profile file flie noticeably like his mothers is very sweet but without charac erand he seems as ia is quite natural ill at ease speaking of the lack of demonstration when the prince appeared in public pu lille the correspondent bays says 1 I a ery tender heart for this imperial family but I 1 confess I Z pitied pitted this poor child of or fourteen who seems to have so few friends when he needs so many in reading this gent lemans letter latter the thought thong lit struck us h how 0 w m many any men who have been and are now famous would at fourteen have passed creditably or given promise of their subsequent great ness to the eyes of a carping newspaper correspondent boys are not unlike young cubs in some respects it t is very difficult to tell what they will make we would not be surprised if thia this tb Is writer was no more promising at fourteen years than many a young whelp oud and had bad he been beed described then quite likely his critic would never have foreshaw owed the possibility of his reaching the position of paris to a new now york journal ir |