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IOTANT MORTAlEITY, 371
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know absent a until lying the -in walls hospital were from scraped which . The puerperal spaces between fever was floors never and
the eeilings floors in themselves old houses are too and often worm full - of eaten filthy are debris a harbor , and even for
parasitic animals ; and , where porous these can lodge , there , surely may be of disease
germs . dust 5 . -bins It ' may . The -be evidence in collection that of scarlet refuse fever matter , dip in htheria sewers , typ , drains hoid , , and and mind indis
cholera are the direct fruits of drain poison , is to my - putable lurk here . At Wherever any rate a , house if organic swarm poisons s with lurk flies anywhere it is demonstrable , they can
. , that decaying organic matter must exist , and where this exists the poison 6 . The of pestilence earth itself may on accompany which houses it . are built , may contain the
material for exhalations . No sane person will inhabit a house but built These to over the propositions made mass earth of the , if may population he be can trite hel and p and it . their self-evident ordinary to teachers philosop , hers they ,
they are still exist a new among , strange us , can , and be hunted troublesome , down , heresy and extirpated ;—that poisons out doctrine of , the if places in which their existence is possible , seems the a strange will do ;
afforded will thing as in not the " great b condescend admirable vaccination , " —he will history simp against swallow ly to in wash the pestilence a drug ; Bible in , fact or , the suffer , seeing public Leper an the exorcism ask protection for more , any but
of the same y sort ; the medical journals contain , from time to time accounts of attempts to inoculate measles , and whooping-cough ; their reek
cowkeepers ing stalls to inoculate protect them the animals from whom eumonia they and keep vicarious in diseases
pn , invader may be a we substitute crouch under for cle a anliness shield . which Instead we of hope exterminating will make an us
, invulnerable . This is the position of the public mind with regard to
vaccination . So soon as an alarm of smallpox is raised , the population flock to the doors of the vaccinator and fill the streetclamoring for
re-vaccinationand they allow their children to be , examined and vaccinated in the , schools . Whoever examines such children must must
such see skin houses s and , bedding clothes , , and and collections whoever follows of refuse them , or foul home state of the see
earthas must breed and propagate disease . But these things are not I reformed have , the by greatest the peop hope le who that willing the recent ly submit outbreak to vaccination of small . pox
may or at have least the the most imperfection beneficial necessaril effects , by y inherent demonstratin in the g the protective failure ,
of outbreak system eradicating , and has so shown the concentrate germs that , multitudes b the y syst public ematic of attention cleanliness exist on . the who The necessity cannot recent persons ,
be secured _^ against the smallpox , either by a previous _^ attack of
Iotant Mortaleity, 371
_IOTANT _MORTAlEITY _, 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/11/
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