Word: smallpox
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...Antonio, last week, Dr. James R. Brain, president of the Texas Chiropractic College there, ejected two policemen from his building. They stood on the sidewalk and would not let him go outdoors, because he would not submit to smallpox vaccination ordered by Dr. William A. King, city health director...
Currently there are slightly less diphtheria, infantile paralysis, measles and typhoid in the U. S. than at this period last year, and slightly more meningitis, scarlet fever. Smallpox also has increased considerably in 1929. But very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...
Causes of Blindness are chiefly trachoma, venereal disease, babies' sore eyes (only three out of five eye infections at birth are due to gonococci), congenital defects, smallpox, glaucoma, accidents...
...physicians reporting only 17 consider vaccine therapy generally useful and superior in treating infectious diseases. That is, in diseases already developed. For immunizing, for protecting against a disease there is very little question that vaccines are good. As immunizers they have guarded myriads of people against, for example, smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria...
...American Medical Association last week notified the profession that a number of children, chiefly of school age, have developed brain infections shortly after smallpox vaccinations. The vaccinations may have affected the brains. But that is not certain. Risks of smallpox are infinitely greater than risks of such encephalitis. Vaccination must not be avoided...