Second Edition CORRESPONDENCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1913, Page 2

Second Edition CORRESPONDENCE.

, ' [Ou v correspondents' opinions are their own; the responsibility of editorial ones makes sufficient , ballast for the editor's shoulders.] I ; IS VA(.'('L\ATI(JX AIT 11 SIS? | (To the Editor). Sir,- -The people oi' New Zealand are now being "rounded up" (like sheep going into the docking-yard), by a host of Government officials who insist upon vaeeinatipn, because they are under a smallpox scare. s Nearly every intelligent man and woman asks what good vaccination docs. The "man in the street" who always knows, you know, says it prevents 1 smallpox, or if it docs not prc- [ vent, it saves much suffering. I I would like to ask our Gov- • eminent officials it it is not true > that well-educated and broad- ' minded doctors laugh at vaccination as. belonging jo the days of ignorance. Therefore wo • cannot wonder at sensible and 1 thoughtful parents objecting to a compulsory law upon which doctors differ in opinion, and ■ which these parents believe results in the blood of their chil- ■ dren being poisoned. ' How is the vaccine obtained ? I By puncturing the shaven abdomen of a cow and then infusing this part with smallpox, or some sort of varisloid poison, causing I suppurating sores in the animal. Then they draw the pustular discharges from these pufref'y- . iny running sores, and prepare , a vaccine Virus," which is in- , .ioet'-d into the pure blood of , children. "Will any duly qualified modi- . cal practitioner step 'forward . and fell the public, that vaecin- , ation prevents smallpox? • Yours, etc., ANTI-VACCINE. [To this letter we feel if our duty to add that vaccination is a proved safeguard against, smallpox. Editor, Chronicle.]