Calf vaccination in Prussia / by W. J. Simpson.

  • Simpson, W. J.
Date:
1897
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    ( ^ ) have secured the syrapathJ^ and sometimes co- operation, of many well-intentioned people by highly coloured descriptions of possible trans- ference of diseases from child to child by means of human vaccine lymyh; and the antipathy of this class to vaccination is really not so much to the use of a protective va.ccine lymph as to the present system of arm to arm vaccination and its possible effects. It is to this class, and ])robably to a wider one, that the employment of calf vaccination under such a system as that pursued in Prussia would appeal as a relief to their doubts and prejudices, and it is an im- portant question for the Government whether it would not be wise in the interests of public health to introduce the necessary machinery into England, so that those at least who preferred vaccination with calf lymph could have their preference respected and granted. It seems to me that every public vaccinator in England should have in his possession at his vaccine station supplies of calf vaccine, and that the poor people who attend these stations should be allowed their choice as to whether their children should be vaccinated with animal or human vaccine. I know that much calf vaccine is prepared and animal vaccination perform- ed by Dr. Coiy, the able director of the Government Vaccine Institute in London, but the work accomplished in comparison with that required is extremely small; it might even be said to be microscopic in extent, and it is certain that, while the system is not recognised as a duty belonging to Government, it is impossible that much progress in the direction of the sup- ply of calf vaccine can be effected. The neces- sary funds and machinery require to be pro- vided, which is only likely to be done when the