If, therefore, it were ever really true that one vaccination gave sure
protection from smallpox for life and that the act of vaccination was
in itself perfectly safe and harmless, as Jenner positively claimed,
vaccination might then of course be a grand thing, of immense benefit
to the human race, and might perhaps deserve all the good things
that have been said about it by its interested flatterers and false
advocates! But, of course, these big claims of life protection and
perfect safety never were true but have been the gigantic falsehoods
on which the great evil of compulsory vaccination has been justified
by the medical profession and forced by it upon the people for many
years past with great damage to human health and life--how much
will never be known--and with great ethical disgrace to the medical
profession itself, as I have already proved, and from which disgrace
the profession should, surely, free itself at an early day for the sake
of professional honor and decency if not for the sake of human right
and safety, health and life.
WHAT PROTECTS US FROM SMALLPOX IN MODERN TIMES? IS IT VACCINATION OR
SOMETHING ELSE? A FALSE CLAIM EXPLODED
We have just seen in the preceding chapter that high medical
authorities positively assure us that vaccination gives no protection
against smallpox unless it is done freshly once a year and is also then
done _repeatedly_, “_until it no longer takes_,” which will surely
require at least two successive vaccinations and may require from two
to three, four or more successive vaccinations each year! Now let us
seriously ask here: How many persons are there in the civil population
or in the Army and Navy who have ever been, or are now, vaccinated in
this way, viz., regularly once a year and then vaccinated repeatedly
until the condition of _vaccinal saturation_ is reached where “_it no
longer takes_”? I firmly believe that no well informed doctor, student
or statistician will deny that _not five per cent._ of the civil
population or of the Army and Navy has ever been vaccinated according
to this rule and system which the experts assure us is the only safe
and certain rule for vaccinal protection from smallpox! What, then,
keeps the general population and the men of the Army and Navy so free
from smallpox that for the generation past there are ordinarily less
annual deaths from smallpox than from lightning? Surely it can not
be vaccination that is responsible for this freedom from smallpox in
modern times when not five per cent. of the population is vaccinated so
that it can have any protection from smallpox!
The extreme pro-vaccinator has, however, long and loudly claimed, and
has deceived himself and the trusting public with this false claim,
that general vaccination is practically the sole and only thing that
has brought about the modern reduction of smallpox or that can ever
reduce smallpox! But this claim is obviously absurd and false on
its face when we have already seen that not five per cent. of the
population is vaccinated in such a way as can give any protection,
and that ninety-five per cent. of the vaccinated population has no
effective vaccinal protection whatever!
This false claim that vaccination has been the chief cause of the
reduction in smallpox in modern times is further positively disproved
by the flagrant fact that countries which are most extensively
vaccinated have had the worst epidemics in modern times, such as the
case of Japan cited on page 53; and that as a rule in all smallpox
epidemics the great majority of cases always occur in well vaccinated
subjects and the minority in unvaccinated subjects as officially
acknowledged in the last epidemic in New York City in 1901 and 1902,
cited on page 204.
Surely, therefore, vaccination cannot be solely responsible for the
great modern reduction of smallpox, but, per contra, there have been
some great benign, natural and artificial conditions which have
intervened in human life since the old days of big smallpox epidemics
and the adoption of vaccination, which benign conditions have brought
about the great decline in smallpox--and not the unnatural and
irrational condition of vaccination which has been falsely credited
with this result. And it must be obvious that benign conditions which
act by the _prevention_ and _reduction_ of disease are more likely to
produce this result than a remedy like vaccination, which means the
actual propagation and infliction of disease. Now what are these benign
conditions? They are clearly of two kinds, “Natural” and “Artificial.”
They are, first, natural, that is, some pervasive natural changes in
conditions of human life, which are more or less unknown or not yet
fully understood in their exact nature, but which have surely brought
about a great reduction in the general death-rate and also in specific
death-rates from several deadly diseases, in which no remedy such as
vaccination has ever been used, and yet the general death-rate and
the death-rates of these particular diseases have been reduced in
modern times even more than smallpox has been reduced since the use
of vaccination. For a few examples of these greatly reduced diseases
we might mention Bubonic Plague, Epidemic Erysipelas, Typhus Fevers,
Cholera, Scurvy, etc., etc. All of these terrible diseases which were
once as bad or worse than smallpox have been not only reduced more
than smallpox in modern times, but most of them have practically been
totally obliterated in modern life, so that they have now become
almost medical curiosities, and yet no such thing as vaccination has
been used in this reduction. The other conditions which have brought
about this reduction of these deadly diseases are the artificial and
purely benign conditions of Sanitation, Hygiene and Isolation. Now
if these safe and benign natural and artificial conditions have,
undeniably, brought about the reduction or obliteration of these
terrible diseases without any vaccination, is it not most logical and
reasonable to conclude that these same safe and benign conditions have
been the chief cause in reducing smallpox also, and that the burden
of proof is clearly on the pro-vaccinators to prove, if they can, the
preposterous claim that vaccination is the chief cause of this great
reduction of smallpox?
At this point this striking historic and medical fact should be
distinctly remembered that before the adoption of vaccination, and
for some time afterwards, there were practically no such remedies
known or used as Sanitation, Hygiene or Isolation. These rational
defenses against smallpox and other diseases are in fact of very recent
usage and have practically been used, in any extended or efficient
manner, only within the last generation! And the reduction in smallpox
practically dates from this usage and is proportional to the extent
and regularity of this usage. See the great success of sanitation and
isolation, etc., in reducing smallpox, without vaccination, in the
English City of Leicester and the general effect of sanitation in
recent times as set forth in the book, “The Vaccination Question,” by
Dr. Millard, London, 1914.
It may therefore be very hard for us to realize this fact in modern
times, that in the old unsanitary days of big epidemics and deadly
plagues, the general population had no clear idea at all of the actual
contagiousness of epidemic diseases or that they were spread by actual
_contact_ or close proximity, from one person to the other, and
therefore no effort whatever was made to isolate cases of dangerous
disease like smallpox, which were thus commonly left freely exposed
in public and private until they spread like wildfire through the
whole community in frequent and wide-spread epidemics common in those
days. Per contra, the idea generally held by the people in these old,
unsanitary times was that epidemic diseases were spread universally,
by some general malign influence, through the air--not by contact
from person to person--and that they were _divine scourges_ sent by
the wrath of God to punish man for his sins, and that it was not only
useless but even impious to try to escape these scourges. Hence the old
barbarous schemes of smallpox inoculation and cowpox vaccination agreed
perfectly with this barbarous medical theology, for by these remedies
the sinner or penitent patient did not try to escape the wrath of God
but willingly bowed to it and took the scourge upon himself in a mild
form with the hope in Divine Mercy to escape it in its worst form! This
seems to have been the medical psychology of vaccination in past times!
THE UNSANITARY CONDITIONS OF JENNER’S DAY EXPOSED. POWER OF SANITATION
TO EXTINGUISH SMALLPOX ADMITTED BY JENNER’S CHIEF ASSISTANT IN 1815
It can therefore be readily seen that, as soon as the barbarous
system of deliberately inviting and spreading disease described in
the preceding paragraph was abandoned, and the reckless exposure of
smallpox in public and private was prevented by strict isolation
and proper sanitation, smallpox epidemics were bound to decline and
disappear. But this result has happened only in very recent times
in advanced communities which have adopted some effective system
of sanitation and isolation, and with little effect one way or the
other from vaccination except that smallpox and other diseases and
the general death-rate seem to be much worse where vaccination is
extensively used and sanitation, isolation and hygiene are neglected,
as has been proved flagrantly in the case of much-vaccinated Japan,
cited on page 53, and, reversely, in the case of the English City
of Leicester, cited on page 22, where the best effects in reduction
of smallpox and increase in general health have been produced by
abandoning vaccination and relying on sanitation, isolation and hygiene
for the last thirty-five years.
Now, a very interesting and convincing evidence in this direction is
furnished by Dr. Jenner’s chief assistant, Dr. James Moore, before
quoted, who, writing over one hundred years ago, clearly recognized
and admitted the truth and force of the above contention, viz., that
sanitation and isolation would extinguish epidemic smallpox, without
regard to vaccination; and this point I will now prove from Dr. Moore’s
book on “The History of Smallpox,” published in London in 1815, which
seems to have been one of the first authorities to urge sanitation and
isolation for the suppression of this disease.
On pages 304 to 307 in Dr. Moore’s book, he gives a very clear
statement of the above point, as follows:
“The plague was a less destructive distemper than the Small
Pox, yet no plan similar to the quarantine laws has been
established to extinguish this infection; and one which was
lately proposed in Parliament was discouraged as injurious to
personal freedom.”
“But surely every man susceptible of a dangerous contagion
has a natural right to hinder persons who are contaminated
with that disease, from touching or even approaching him. The
exercise of this right is a species of self defence; which for
the public safety may assuredly be regulated by law, without
infringing any reasonable notions of political liberty.”
“It is therefore much to be wished, that to preclude all
persons infected with the Small Pox from mixing with the
public, a law should be enacted to confine them strictly to
their own houses, or in hospitals appropriated by the parishes
for that purpose, as long as the infection is upon them.”
“The plan is simple, to enforce it would be easy; and the sole
inconvenience would be a temporary confinement of those persons
whose enlargement spreads poison through the land.”
“By such a measure, the infection of the Small Pox, for want
of subjects to act upon, would necessarily decline, and soon
become extinct; and multitudes of human creatures would be
annually preserved from disease, blindness and death.”
It will now be seen that this interesting medical and historical
authority shows us that, while quarantine or isolation had been used to
some extent in old times in the prevention of the plague, yet it had
never been applied to smallpox, and that a law proposed in the English
Parliament in 1815 to make isolation compulsory was defeated; but Dr.
Moore distinctly tells us that such a law or practice, if enforced,
would by itself extinguish smallpox!
Now, this admission I regard as very significant and conclusive in this
contention in coming from Dr. Moore, who was a medical authority in
Jenner’s day, being a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London
and Surgeon of the Second Regiment of Life Guards, and was also so
close to Jenner that he dedicated his book to him, and was not only his
chief assistant in the new scheme of vaccination but held the important
office of “Director of the National Vaccine Establishment,” which was
the government institution controlling the production of vaccine virus
and the administration of public vaccination.
Surely, therefore, we could have no better authority than Dr. Moore
to admit and establish our present contention against the modern evil
of compulsory vaccination, viz., that there is surely something else
besides vaccination that has prevented or reduced smallpox epidemics in
modern times, and that something is the benign and rational remedies
of sanitation and isolation with certain natural and human changes
and improvements in conditions of human life and health; and not the
irrational and malign remedy of propagating and inflicting general
disease upon the people, as falsely taught by the extreme vaccinators.
FURTHER PROOF FROM THE ENGLISH MINISTER OF HEALTH THAT SANITATION
PREVENTS SMALLPOX MORE THAN VACCINATION. POORLY VACCINATED LONDON MORE
HEALTHY THAN MUCH-VACCINATED BERLIN
In a speech by the Hon. John Burns, Minister of Health for England and
Wales, in the House of Commons on April 11, 1912, he gave the following
clear statement showing that vaccination cannot be alone credited with
the reduction of smallpox, but that, as a matter of fact, smallpox had
declined as vaccination was reduced and as sanitation and other benign
conditions of human life had increased. These most significant facts
are fully expressed in the following extract from the official speech,
which speaks clearly for itself and needs no further comment here.
“I am not at all alarmed by the comparison made with
Germany.... I entertain the respect for figures tempered by
fact, which every responsible man ought to have. Just in
proportion as in recent years exemptions (from vaccination)
have gone up from four per cent. to thirty per cent., so
deaths from smallpox have declined.... The facts are these:
I am right in giving these figures with regard to London.
During the time that I have had the honor of being at the
Local Government Board the following have been the deaths from
smallpox in a city of 4,500,000 inhabitants: 1906, no deaths;
1907, no deaths; 1908, no deaths; 1909, two deaths; 1910, no
deaths. So that in five years there have only been two deaths
from smallpox in a city of 4,500,000 people. Not even Germany
or Berlin can transcend those figures by the increasing
cleanliness, increasing sobriety and greater attention paid
both by the community and individuals to removing all causes of
smallpox, and nearly every other disease.... I believe that all
this fear and panic, all this talk about plague and smallpox,
is due to misconception and misapprehension of social facts.
These diseases are in a very different position from what
they were in ten, twenty, thirty or forty years ago, and it
is a creditable and a happy circumstance that I, as Minister
of Health for England and Wales, am enabled to state that in
regard to the administration of public health no other country
is comparable to ours, and I am pleased to have heard such
hearty recognition of our efforts from the different speakers
this afternoon.”
I therefore think that this close study of vaccination facts thus far
presented must convince every reasonable mind, lay or medical, that
if these benign conditions of sanitation, isolation, etc., had been
generally adopted and enforced for the past century, in place of the
dangerous remedy of general or compulsory vaccination, smallpox would
have become extinct before this time and as much of a medical curiosity
as Plague, Cholera, Typhus and Scurvy now are, which at one time
slaughtered their thousands every year!
I also believe that it is probably due to this evil practice of general
vaccination, which is simply the propagation and infliction on the
general population of actual smallpox in one of its various forms, that
the pestilence of smallpox has been kept alive as a still dangerous
menace to human health and life, ready to burst out into conflagration
wherever vaccination is recklessly and extensively used, as in the
recent case of Japan, or where sanitation is grossly neglected, instead
of being now a medical curiosity, like the other great plagues of the
past which we have successfully extinguished without any vaccination.
And as smallpox is the only one of the ancient plagues that we have
deliberately cultivated, propagated and constantly inflicted upon
the human population, under a barbarous and false theory of thereby
preventing disease, is it any wonder, in common sense and common logic,
that we have so signally succeeded in keeping this ancient plague alive
by this strange medical malpractice, while the other ancient plagues
have become extinguished?
ONLY A LIMITED AND VOLUNTARY USE OF VACCINATION SUGGESTED AND APPROVED.
FORCED VACCINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN CONDEMNED
I firmly believe that vaccination should be used only, or chiefly,
in smallpox hospitals, or elsewhere, by doctors and nurses whose
professional duties require them to be exposed directly to smallpox
infection and who necessarily have to take the professional chances
of injury or infection from either the smallpox or the vaccination.
If, therefore, vaccination confers any protection or immunity from
smallpox, even for a short or limited time, it is, of course, proper
for doctors, nurses and attendants to make use of this protection as
far and as frequent as they may wish or consider necessary. It is, of
course, also proper for any person, whether exposed or not exposed to
smallpox, to voluntarily resort to vaccination whenever he may see fit
to do so, or as his doctor may advise, as this is the unalienable right
of Medical Freedom for which we contend and to which all citizens are
entitled. But to force the whole population, and particularly little
children, to submit to the dangerous operation of vaccination, when
the merest fraction of this population, or not one in a thousand,
would ever be exposed to any probable chance of actual contact with
smallpox, and therefore not requiring any protection against it, would,
obviously, be a very absurd, unwise and dangerous practice; because to
thus vaccinate the mass of this healthy, unexposed and unendangered
population would simply be widely extending disease and infection where
it did not already exist, and would be inflicting a form of artificial
smallpox on the whole population which, as I have already clearly
proved, might be more dangerous in the long run than the ordinary
chances from natural smallpox itself. This is particularly true when I
have shown from high medical authorities that vaccination gives only
an evanescent protection, or immunity for short periods of time, from
a few months to a year, and requires to be continued at such short
intervals and doubled or repeated at each interval, which frequent
repetitions greatly increase the chances of incurring more injury from
the many vaccinations than from smallpox!
Where, however, vaccination is used by the doctors, nurses or
attendants at the smallpox hospitals, or by any other person actually
exposed or likely to be exposed to the disease, the case is entirely
different and the burden of the chances and dangers is safely shifted
and greatly reduced, as, in this case, the artificial disease of
vaccination is inflicted to protect the vaccinated person from the
natural disease of smallpox only where this disease already exists and
actually endangers the person exposed to it. This is entirely different
from the practice of inflicting and spreading disease widely where
it does not already exist, as in the evil system of the wholesale
vaccination of school children and the general population who are not
exposed to smallpox and may never be exposed to it in a lifetime.
The absurdity and uselessness of vaccinating school children where
no smallpox exists, and where there is no chance of being exposed to
it, is proved by the short period of protection given by vaccination
and now admitted by vaccinators; because the limited protection given
by vaccination at such a time, when not needed, would probably have
expired by the time it was needed by the appearance of any epidemic
or sporadic case, thus making the previous vaccination needless and
another vaccination necessary. As a fresh vaccination, therefore, is
the only thing that gives any sure protection, and this for a few
months only, there is surely no use in vaccinating any children, on
the vaccinators’ own showing, until they are actually menaced by the
presence of smallpox infection or epidemic.
ABSURDITY OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION OF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE WHO HAVE
HIGHEST IMMUNITY AND VITALITY AND LOWEST DEATH-RATE OF ANY PART OF THE
POPULATION
To single out children of school age for this application of wholesale
and compulsory vaccination, as is done under the present evil school
vaccination law which has been originated and sustained by our medical
societies, is particularly absurd, mischievous and unethical from a
true medical, sanitary and hygienic standpoint; because it is a most
extraordinary fact, which seems to be little known by the doctors or
the laity, that children of school age have the greatest immunity
from all disease and the lowest general death-rate of any part of the
population, and to a most surprising degree, and are therefore in less
need of the alleged protection of vaccination than any other part of
the population! Whereas it is generally falsely assumed that they are
in most need of such protection. This relative immunity and vitality
is, however, so great that children of school age from 6 to 19 have
only five per cent. of the total deaths from all causes, although they
constitute about twenty-five per cent. of the whole population! The
children of school age have therefore about twelve times the immunity
and vitality of the infant age under six years and about six times
the vitality and immunity of all the rest of the population over
nineteen! See Report of the New York State Department of Health for
1912, page 125. See also my pamphlet, “The Crime Against the School
Child,” 1915, pages 32-33. This extraordinary fact alone condemns
all compulsory vaccination of school children as a most medically
incongruous, barbarous and unnecessary practice. But this evil creation
of our medical societies will never be given up by our infallibilistic
vaccinators until the common sense of the laity is firmly asserted to
make all vaccination in schools or elsewhere free and voluntary and
to demand the repeal of the evil compulsory vaccination law wherever
it exists, which has probably killed three times more children than
smallpox in the last ten or fifteen years.
VACCINATION A POOR PROTECTION AGAINST DISEASE. FLAGRANT AND FREQUENT
FAILURE TO PROTECT FROM SMALLPOX OR TYPHOID FEVER SHOWN BY MANY TYPICAL
INSTANCES AT HOME AND ABROAD
At the outset I stated that I did not need to discuss the merits or
demerits of vaccination in its alleged preventive or immunizing power
against disease; and while these merits had been much exaggerated,
yet, whatever they were, small or large, did not matter much, as the
chief question was the danger of vaccination to health and life. This
was also the chief question with the evil predecessors of modern
vaccination, viz., the old smallpox inoculation and Jenner’s arm-to-arm
vaccination, both of which were admitted to have some protective power
against smallpox, yet both were finally condemned and prohibited
by public opinion and penal law because they were found to be very
dangerous to human health and life and actually caused more disease and
death in the long run than they prevented.
I think I have already proved in the preceding pages, without any
doubt, the serious dangers of modern bovine vaccination to human health
and life, and that it now, in fact, often causes more deaths than
smallpox, particularly in infants and school children, and has also
been the cause of many dangerous epidemics among animals and mankind;
and that for these capital reasons all compulsory vaccination should
be absolutely abolished and prohibited, and voluntary vaccination only
allowed.
In order, therefore, to show the meager or limited protective power
of vaccination and its common, proved and admitted failure to protect
from epidemic disease, I will now give several typical examples of this
failure, both with the more common smallpox vaccination and the more
recent typhoid vaccination, so as to complete this indictment against
the medical malpractice of compulsory vaccination in all forms and
leave nothing further which need be said on this subject in these pages
to bring conviction to every reasonable mind that the barbarous medical
scheme of compulsory disease is a very dangerous and fallacious mode of
improving public health.
EXAMPLE FIRST. From Report of Registrar General of England for last
great epidemic year of 1902:
Population of England and Wales 33,000,000
Total Deaths from Smallpox 2464
Vaccinated Cases 821
Unvaccinated Cases 791
Condition Not Stated 852
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2464
Surely there is no proof here that vaccination is much of a protection
from smallpox, but rather the very reverse, because it is here shown
that the majority of fatal cases are vaccinated.
EXAMPLE SECOND. During the last great smallpox epidemic in New York
City in 1901 and 1902, the City Department of Health issued a printed
circular to doctors, dated in 1902, which clearly acknowledged that
the majority of all cases in this epidemic occurred in persons who
had been successfully vaccinated a few years previously, and not
in unvaccinated persons! This statement was signed by Dr. Ernst J.
Lederle, Commissioner of Health, and Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, Chief
Medical Officer, and was in part as follows:
“Experience in the recent outbreaks in New York City, contrary
to the general opinion, has shown that the majority of the
cases occurring here are not in unvaccinated persons, but
in those who have been vaccinated successfully some years
previously.”
Dr. Lederle, who signed this statement, is now a manufacturer of
vaccines and serums in New York City, and Dr. Biggs is now the Health
Commissioner of the State of New York at Albany.
EXAMPLE THIRD. Health Officer Raymond of Brooklyn stated in the
_Brooklyn Eagle_ of June 5, 1902, that in the epidemic in Brooklyn in
1902, in the first half of that year, there were 357 cases of smallpox
and that 322 of these cases were all vaccinated and only 35 cases
unvaccinated!
Surely these last two examples, right at our own doors, show that
vaccination is little or no protection, or, to say the least, is a
very poor protection, from smallpox, or has such a limited duration
or period of protection that it fades out very rapidly and needs to
be renewed and repeated frequently, with great possible danger to
health and life, as already proved, and admitted by medical authorities
previously quoted, so that this “cure” not only often fails but may
become finally worse than the “disease.”
EXAMPLE FOURTH. Smallpox in Germany, the best vaccinated country in
Europe, as given in U. S. Public Health Report for January 23, 1914:
_Record of Smallpox Cases and Vaccinal Conditions for Three Years,
1908, 1909, 1910_
Total cases 917
Vaccinated and re-vaccinated 671
Unvaccinated 143
Unknown 28
Vaccinated unsuccessfully or too late 75
---
917
Here we plainly see that in this much-vaccinated country--the pride
of vaccinators--the cases of smallpox among the well vaccinated and
re-vaccinated were _over four times_ the number of cases among the
unvaccinated! Surely this example, with the two previous ones, clearly
proves that vaccination is not very much of a protection! And surely
there is nothing in these examples which any vaccinator can get much
comfort from or use as a moral or medical justification of the shameful
and evil practice of forcing compulsory vaccination upon the whole
community under the shocking falsehood that it is the infallible and
only protection against smallpox! And surely these forceful and
humiliating facts give a stinging rebuke to this false contention.
EXAMPLE FIFTH. The fully vaccinated U. S. battle-ship _Ohio_ versus the
unvaccinated City of Niagara Falls, N. Y.
A smallpox epidemic raged on this battle-ship at Guantanamo, Cuba, in
December, 1913, and January, 1914, with these figures:
Population about 1000
Smallpox Cases 29
Deaths 5
Per contra, an epidemic existed in Niagara Falls from 1912 to 1914,
inclusive, as follows:
Population 40,000
Total cases of Smallpox 550
Deaths from Smallpox 1
Deaths from Vaccination 3
Never vaccinated 483
Vaccinated over five years 26
Vaccinated for less than 5 years 5
Not stated 36
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550
Logical comparison of the vaccinated ship with the unvaccinated city,
as follows:
The vaccinated ship had twenty-nine cases and five deaths per thousand
population.
This same ratio of disease and death applied to the 40,000 population
of Niagara Falls would call for 1160 cases and 200 deaths! Whereas
the cases were actually only fourteen per thousand population and the
deaths one fortieth of one person per thousand population, while the
known deaths from vaccination were three!
It is surely not difficult to decide here as to which makes the worst
showing, the vaccinated ship or the unvaccinated city! And while
vaccinators are very fond of referring to this case of Niagara Falls
as a great example of the virtue and need of vaccination, we think it
must be obvious that the less they say of this case as compared with
the vaccinated battle-ship _Ohio_, the better it will be for the cause
of vaccination and the logic of the vaccinator. Here we see five deaths
from smallpox in the well vaccinated battle-ship with 1000 population,
and one death from smallpox in the unvaccinated city of 40,000
population, which is a ratio of mortality, on basis of population, _two
hundred times greater_ in the well vaccinated battle-ship than in the
unvaccinated city!
Besides this difference of smallpox cases and deaths in favor of the
unvaccinated city, there were three deaths from vaccination in the
Niagara Falls population or three times more than the deaths from
smallpox!
For some of these facts as to Niagara Falls see the Report of the New
York State Department of Health for 1914, page 102. The three alleged
deaths from vaccination are denied, as usual, by the health officials,
but we have convincing evidence to prove them as most probably due to
vaccination. These three fatal cases were: Miss Hull, school teacher,
vaccinated when she was suffering from kidney disease; Bernard Moran,
a very old man, vaccinated when he was suffering from heart disease;
and John George Chambers, a strong man, killed by a clear case of acute
blood poisoning or septicemia with complications immediately following
the vaccination and extending from the vaccination sore.
EXAMPLE SIXTH. The flagrant failure of Typhoid Vaccination in the U. S.
Army in England and France.
The following extracts are taken from the Report of the Chief Surgeon
of the A. E. F., printed in U. S. Public Health Reports for March
28, 1919, entitled: “Typhoid Vaccination No Substitute for Sanitary
Precautions.” These extracts tell their story, most plainly and
positively, as to the abject failure of typhoid vaccination to protect
from disease where and when this protection is really needed, that is,
where serious actual infection exists due to unsanitary conditions;
and they also prove the necessity and superior value of sanitation as
a protection from disease. I now quote these extracts verbatim as they
appear in the official Report. They speak clearly for themselves and
need no comment here to emphasize their great force and significance as
a strong argument against compulsory vaccination from the vaccinators
themselves.
“In July, 1918, a replacement unit consisting of 248 men from
Camp Cody, N. Mex., reached England with typhoid prevailing
extensively; 98 men, or 39.5 per cent., had typhoid, and the
case death-rate was 8.42 per cent.
“It was evident from the investigation that the men were
exposed to infection through contaminated drinking water while
en route to the port of embarkation in the United States. The
unit had been vaccinated a few months prior to the occurrence
of the epidemic. Most of the patients presented the typical
clinical features of typhoid.”
“In August, 1916, a small but severe epidemic occurred in a
detachment of Engineer troops stationed at Bazoilles. In this
unit fifteen cases of typhoid occurred, with a death-rate
approximating ten per cent.”
“Following the offensive in the Argonne sector, typhoid and
paratyphoid began to be reported from practically all divisions
engaged in that offensive. It is quite evident that the initial
cases were due in large part to drinking infected water.”
“More than 300 cases of typhoid-paratyphoid may be attributed
to the Argonne offensive. Eight hundred and seventy-four
typhoids and paratyphoids have been reported in the American
Expeditionary Forces since October 1, 1918.”
“A small but severe epidemic occurred in the Joinville
concentration area in December and January. In a group of
Medical Department units (evacuation and mobile hospitals
and sanitary trains) concentrated there seventy-five cases
occurred, with a case death-rate of approximately twenty per
cent.”
“The records of this office show that patients with typhoid
have passed successively through camp, field, evacuation, and
base hospitals without any documentary evidence that typhoid or
paratyphoid was even suspected. There are records of a stay of
two weeks or more in a single base hospital without diagnosis,
and not a few records are on file showing that it remained for
the pathologist to make the diagnosis at the autopsy table.”
“The vaccinated individual protected against general systemic
infection may still act as a carrier of typhoid infection,
and frequently shows clinical manifestations of local disease
of some portion of the gastrointestinal tract, while the
characteristic symptom complex of typhoid fever due to general
infection, namely, continued fever, rose spots, and enlarged
spleen, may be wholly absent.”
“Many cases originally diagnosed as influenza in the American
Expeditionary Forces have subsequently proven to be typhoid.”
“Intestinal types of supposed influenza should always be
considered as possible typhoid until proven otherwise.”
“The frequency with which atypical, mild, unrecognized cases
of typhoid and paratyphoid fever has occurred in the American
Expeditionary Forces among vaccinated men makes it absolutely
essential to surround all such cases of undetermined fever with
the same precautions which it is found necessary to apply to
established typhoid or paratyphoid patients, to avoid contact
infections in the wards among other patients and hospital
personnel.”
“Several protocols have been received in which the complete
pathological and bacteriological pictures of typhoid fever were
recorded but the cause of death was entered as ‘peritonitis,’
‘perforation of the intestine,’ ‘broncho-pneumonia,’ ‘acute
enterocolitis.’”
“Typhoid fever is increasing in the American Expeditionary
Forces--so are the paratyphoid fevers.”
“Vaccination is a partial protection only and must be
reinforced by sanitary measures.”
It will be noted that not only does the above official Report contain
a frank, full, and free admission of the outright and inexcusable
failure of typhoid vaccination to protect from typhoid fever where it
is most needed, viz., where “sanitary precautions” do not exist, but
it also clearly shows some other serious evils which I have repeatedly
charged to the practice of compulsory vaccination, viz., it shows
how frequently false diagnoses are made of vaccinated cases, either
wilfully or inadvertently, so as to conceal the actual occurrence
of typhoid fever in vaccinated men and report it as some other
disease, such as “Influenza,” etc., and thus conceal the failures
of vaccination. It also shows that many cases of death from typhoid
fever in vaccinated men are reported as not due to this disease but
to some of its terminals or complications such as “Peritonitis,”
“Broncho-Pneumonia,” “Enterocolitis,” etc. By these mistaken, or
wilfully false, reports, the failures, dangers and fatalities of
vaccination are often concealed and denied, thus verifying my charge of
serious medical falsification in these matters, which I have openly and
publicly stated for years past and challenged denial or disproof.
EXAMPLE SEVENTH. Failure of Typhoid Vaccination in the U. S. Army in
America.
In the _Journal of the American Medical Association_ for February
15, 1919, there is a report of a bad epidemic of Typhoid Fever which
occurred among the vaccinated men in Camp Greene, Charlotte, North
Carolina, in June, 1918. In this case infection is reported to have
come from ice cream which the men had eaten, and the rather pitiable
and ridiculous excuse is given for the failure of the vaccination in
this case, that the infection in the ice cream was so virulent or in
such “massive doses” that the protective power of the vaccination
was not sufficient to overcome such “massive” infection, and hence
the vaccination failed to protect the men and they succumbed to the
disease, notwithstanding their extensive and repeated vaccination! This
is, of course, another and equally positive admission of the failure
of typhoid vaccination, but, unlike the previous example, it is a
rather ridiculous or farcical admission, as it attempts to excuse
the failure by saying that the “doses” of infection in the ice cream
were so “massive” that the vaccination was overpowered and could not
be expected to overcome such odds! In other words, vaccination will
protect you where there is no dangerous or serious infection to be
guarded against, but will fail where any serious or “massive” doses of
infection are present! This is equivalent to saying that vaccination
is a good policeman for any town where there are no lawbreakers and no
disorder, but is no good where there is any serious crime, violence
or danger. Vaccination, we are thus told, is a good bulletproof armor
provided you shoot only pop-guns against it, but it is no good to
resist real pistol or rifle balls! This is just about what opponents
of compulsory vaccination have been contending for years, and this is
therefore one of the chief reasons why we now contend that no such
ineffective, unreliable and dangerous remedy should be forced on any
person, child or adult, against free will and consent.