VACCINATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 July 1913, Page 5

VACCINATION.

HOW TO TELL IF IT IS TAKING. Soma uncertainty exists amongst persona who have been vaccinated as to whether the vaccine has "taken" or not. In order to ascertain what normally constitutes successful vaccination, a medical authority was seen. iHe stated that the effects of vaccination vary, depending upon the natural immunity to small-pox, and to vaccination .required by the subject ancestrally, or by previous vaccination in infancy. Taking a normal case, a red spot should .appear at the point or points of scarification at the end of the third day, counting the day of the operation as the first day. This spot should increase in size, and by the fifth or sixth day should form a Vesicle containing watery-looking material. The vesicle should increase in eize up to about the eighth day, and about that period a red band should appear surrounding the vesicle and increasing in size for the next day or two. Alfttjie same time, the clear fluid which was in the vesicle should have become opaque and thick, attd by W tenth or eleventh day the inflammatory symptoms should begin to subside, and the vesiclea begin to dry up and turn a brownish dolour. At the end of a fortnight a reddish brown incrustation be formed, which should shrink and fall off, somewhere about the 21st day. A scar should remain, pink at first, but afterwards turning to white, which should be slightly hollow or depressed omnilar in shape, and dotted with small indentations. * ...