As to vaccination and smallpox : supplement to "A vaccination creed".

  • Chicago (Ill.). Department of Health
Date:
1902
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Credit: As to vaccination and smallpox : supplement to "A vaccination creed". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AS TO VACCINATION AND SMALLPOX SUPPLEMENT TO “A VACCINATION CREED” NZ one of the 346 cases of smallpox discovered in Chicago within the last three years was found vacci- nated as defined in the VACCINATION CREED. Of the total number, 306 never had been vaccinated at all, thouvh most of them claimed that they had. Examina- tion of the arms proved that these attempts at vaccination were failures; there was no scar and the patients finally admitted that the vaccinations when performed did not “‘take.’’ A “‘failure’’ is not a vaccination; therefore, these 306 cases had never been vaccinated. Of the remaining 40 cases, 26 had old, irregular and doubtful scars said to be the result of vaccination; but these were not characteristic; they were more like the scars from infected sores or wounds than those from vaccine. Nine had fair old scars of vaccinations made from 30 to 40 years previously. Only five had typical (characteristic) scars; but these also were the results of vaccination made many years before and never repeated. In no single case of the 346 had the terms of the First Article of the VACCINATION CREED been complied with — vaccination had NOT been repeated until it would no lon- ger ‘‘take.”’ If it had been they could not have contracted smallpox. These 346 persons are examples of thousands of others who honestly believe they have been vaccinated, because they have had their arms scratched, something rubbed in and amore or less painful sore has resulted. There is no operation so simple and so safe as vaccination when properly performed and cared for. There is no simple operation in which such serious results follow carelessness and ignorance — even unto death itself, either as a direct result through poisoning of the vaccination sore or from smallpox through failure to secure a successful protective =sotion MIMI 22502807228
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