VACCINATION.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3495, 8 March 1880, Page 2

VACCINATION.

To the Editor of the Evening Stab,

Sib,—l am very glad that " Common Sense " has sense enough not to attempt to deny the injurious effects which I stated has so-often followed vaccination; even his own extract bears.it out by saying that with proper precautions in obtaining and using lymph no danger is .to be apprehended, but do public vaccinators exercise these precautions ? I think I may safely say no. It is top often taken from child to child without proper enquiries being made as to the general health either of the child or its parents. 'Dr White-, head in the Westminster Review records a case in which he was the.unconscious instrument of conveying the venereal poison from a syphilitic child to a healthy one .by taking vaccine lymph from the arm of one and inserting it in the arm of the other. Previous to vaccination both it and an elder child of the same -parents were " healthy, and it appeared upon inquiry that the infant from whom the vaccine lymph was taken had suffered soon after birth from purulent opthalmia, , accompanied with blotches on the skin for : which it was several weeks under treat- j menfc. The newly tainted child died \ when four and a half month's old of con- J stitutional syphilis. While sucking its mother it infected her system through the J nipples, and she died at the age of 38 i years, about 3 years after the vaccination. Dr Whitehead has notes, more or less complete, of nine similar cases, and he believes maoy such might be collected.— I am, &c, Paterfamilias.