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Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 329, 13 September 1907, Page 1

Business Notices JOHN HINTON. B R 4 C K L A Y E K\ KAWHIA. Sheep Dip? Buht in Brick or Cuiwvd, h. AT.y /t >h - : ' /e in a Zing for

NURSE. jrse d these 'op. WIGHTMA <og"ih a t the T Board, ocrog on the spot, would have a more effective control. Cr. Kearns agreed with these views, but asked Mr. Langley if the Town Board was in a position to carry out the proposition. In reply, Mr. Langley said the scheme would be rather more elaborate than at first anticipated, because a number of private establishments would utilise the supply. Reports from towns where this light had been installed were of a most satisfactory nature. He would convey the opinion of the Council to the Board, and the whole matter would be brought before a meeting of ratepayers in conjunction with a general scheme of town improvements. The Small-pox Outbreak. So far only one case of the prevailin'! epidemic has been recited locally-a Maori who con tracted the disease while in Auck land—and a crude system o isolation has beed established

isolation na» —.t Dr. Jenkins has been busily engaged vaccinating both Europeans and Maoris, but the limited supply of lymph has n ®c essa checked his work. As there has been considerable discussion as to the efficacy of vaccination, we publish herewith what may be regarded as the last word in medical science, being an extract from a treatise by William Osler M.D., &c.. a recognised authonty and Professor of Medicine at the Oxford University ■ —

the dimunition in small-pox and for the low rate m raortah * y : Isolation, of course, is a usehi l auxiliary, but it is n ,°. Bub , Bt ‘ t n t h ' Vaccination is not claimed to be an invariable and permanent preventive of small-pox, but in an immense majority of cases successful inoculation renders the person for many years msusceptjhie. Communities m which vaccination and revaccination are Uioroughly and systematically carried out are those in which small-pox has the fewest victims The German army since 1874, the date of the stringent laws, has enjoyed practical immunity not a single death from smaH-pox (to 1902). except an isolated case

under peculiar circumstances in o 1884-’B5 On the other hand, com- t munities in which vaccination and revaccination are persistently neglected are those in which epidemics are most prevalent Owing to a widespread prejudice against vaccination in Montreal, there grew up, between the years 1876 and IW4, a considerable unproiected population, and the materials were ripe for an extensive epidemic. The soil had been prepared with the greatest care, and itonly needed the introduction of the seed, which in due time came with the Pullman-car conductor from Chicago, oh the 28th of

February, 1885,. Within the next 10 months thousands of persons were stricken with the disease, and 3,164 died. , Although the affect of a single vaccination may wear eut, as we aay, and the individual become susceptible to small-poor yet the mortality, in such cases is very much lower than in persons

vho have never been vaccinated.' fbe mortality in persons who have >een vaccinated is from 6 to 8 per lent, whereas in the unvaccinated , it is at least 35 per cent. There is 1 svidence that the greaterthe nujn- * her of marks, the greater the pro- £ lection in relation to small-pox ; thus the English Vaccination J Report states that out of 4,754 t cases the death rata with one , mark was 7.6 per cent; with two a marks, 7 per cent; with three marks, A2 per cent; with four c marks, 2,4 per cent. W. M i Welch's statistics of 5,000 cases on this point give with godd cicatrices 8 per cent; with fair cica- ’ trices, 14 per cent; with poor cica- ■ trices, 27 percent; posf-Vaccihal cases, 16 per cent; unvaccinated cases, 58 per cent”

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