Show I Ie V Longer Zw rZ Life e G OP aAS tEMO 1 I At INS T rV r Eo T S SMALLPOX I On nOX Ano WHICH By BI San II IJ Woo II I D Miss Member GUI gas Memorial Institute Before Jenner the man discovered the efficacy of ot smallpox was a childrens children's The adult population was largely Immune the vast ast major maJor- ity majority of o people showing by their d faces that they had already suffered front from the scourge e So universally present these scars that th the Frenchman St Simon could think of no great r complimentary comment on the of one of the ladle ladles ot the Court of Louis the Fourteenth than to sa say that she showed no pock marks on her face tenth One of those who die died of oC this disease A blind beggar is a B familiar ex- ex ex expression and blind beggars who were so BO common in the ages and Inter were largely the victims of the which hold blinded them Vaccination changed all tills this No longer where It is practiced do children die In hordes Pock Pockmarked marked faces are so aO uncommon as asto to cause comment when one Is Yet tod today y people are carless They ar enjoying fal believing that there Is no danger of smallpox The Is 8 large Increase In the number of cases of smallpox oY r years The latest from the public service over cas cases s In In 19 1923 3 there were In round num num- numbers numbers bers only cases casesi Were cre It possible to vaccinate all peoples s of all coun coun- countries countries tries at one and the same time smallpox would would become a memory on I Were ere nil all children v vaccinated ed cd during the first years of smallpox would not get Iet much of ofa ofa a foothold no foothold at all un unless less le Introduced the outside Porto Forto Rico nico Guam and lire examples of the protection d tf Corded by auch luch action Massachusetts seUs Rhode Rhodo Island New Hamp Hampshire shire and tho cities of New York of and over show the goo of the vaccination of ot schoolchildren This Improvement ment has come be- be be because cause of the wll wa care or health authorities in spite of oC the fact that except In a few vaccInation Is poorly or not at enforced The rhe United States the mo most t telephones the most s the most railroads and supposedly the greatest civilization Is surpassed In the Incidence of its only by the most back back- backward backward ward countries India China and p perhaps lII Mexico Persia Afghanistan Nothing but vaccination no RO far faras faras as we at t present know will pro pro- protect pro protect a person expo exposed ed to from the likelihood of It Recently vaccinated he can safely approach touch and care for those afflicted So why not ba be vaccinated In Repeat the process In ones one's teens and then be bo con con- conent content tent ent to try out ones one's Immunity un unless less leIS direct exposure has occurred or a se severe sere re epidemic la Is prea present nt To Todi dl of smallpox Is a crime oneself and against the community at this stage ot civilizations civilization's de- de development de development |