As a matter of cold fact, therefore, these “Assassins of the Blood,”
vaccination and lockjaw, offer a far greater risk and danger to human
health and life than natural smallpox itself, and if we should fear
anything for ourselves or our children it should be vaccination and
lockjaw instead of smallpox, of which we stand in far less danger than
of being struck by lightning, whereas lockjaw is a steady and constant
danger thirty times greater than smallpox, as the following comparative
list of deaths from Smallpox, Lightning and Lockjaw in the State of
New York will readily show. This list is taken from the reports of our
State Department of Health for the seven years from 1910 to 1916, as
follows: