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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-10-24, Page 2he History of Vaccination This is the'First of a series o Thirty Articles ou Health, Secured by. Your Newspaper for Weekly Publica- tion and Compiled by the Canadian Social Hygiene Council in Ca -operation with Many of the Most .Outstanding Public Health Authorities in Canada Six Osier, Camilla ,i&ePoyswhile so oat tau, (Mee remarked' that, small -Pox in. serieue Prportion,+ is always a groat) at indlvlduala in lucre ias net metal. So then y ug see, every commuttftY of that peculiar or• a n •Se tlen day hto Y'of reason to be grate - caof mind which rendet'a them in - we have plenty capable at sane judgment and who fel to Dr. Edward. Januar, the lenge sack in every way to oppose vaccina• nehmen who gave vaccination to the Con and re•vaoeinatiou ,not (ply for worrld. aecinatlon wee discovered by Sen thentscivee but also for others." We have found this to be so itt Her an Englishman. About 17b0, -a Canada, dou and wet a sma not the epislight.' mb c,: edttt yens stedent reaming uear ed oJenner est doubt that if a 1 I Although she was suffering ttone a -were to make its ghastly presence". Reit to-morrrw there would bo the, rash, she confidently asserted that it usual handful of people to raise a, was not passible tor her to get smell -- hue and cry against vaccination, 1pox because she lead already had the Yet vaccination is recognized by all coW-POi little incident had the same public health administrator's as be - fug the only eficient means by whish effect R Januar as the allinglat est apple this dsoase can he' combatted. And had.it is ovally true that ventilation.' started t o ed lieukiwnags and it was srnot loug properly performed le absolutely de-( bscientist, Asa result of his owne- vtLt of danger b to into or health, meats, six years later, he inoculated Let ns look bath into ttte pagess of art eight-year-old boy from cue of on b and that t was years passe . liie mild Patlents 'who at cow -pox aensued with h no we Rntt that Hat ten passed serious effects. Two months later during the seventeenth cendtury Gingth- the boy was inoculated from a pus out lite occur small ot it Et ops, epidemics c f smallpox it Europe, tale of a Patient suffering from smal!- •Small-pox was the king of diseases pox No illness resulted and it was prior 1 thA dt encu otiL vaccination o1ousieue illeated, When effects, 1110 youngfswas setentistl1 Jen- in 17911 A trench writer, h iter lomat that he had discovered de la Condamine, said that it was the ntit of all the deaths something. Ile gave Iiia knoawle cause of one-tenth o the world in the Corot o paper -t. t man l,lt d on e don. am .. w Macauley the 'Mittens h in, his c hr. published s t continent the first vaccine - try about a havoc in his boun-4 pla sate: "Tete havoc re the BlaonnhpsOCowrn11ssontl`eBaatotl, Boylston ntone tLague plague been far more rapid, but ` after this he inoculated 247 peo- P ohs pwithi visited our shores (ally yearieand every one escaped the tor- en- Y, vi New living engulfed the g u tt within a e tt that o e t I i tri. onto able epidemic c the smntl•pox utas always present, t L l fitaun the churchyards with corpses leaving on diose whose lives were spared the hideous traces cf its pow- er turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother altndderd; mak- ing the eyes and cheeks of the be- trothed maiden objects ot horror to her lover." In fact, Macauley concludes, "Small- pox is the most terrible of all minis- ters c0 death." Mexico was stricken with an epid- emic itt the sixteenth century, and 3,500,000 of its inhabitants died, leav- ing scarcely enough people in some cetltree to hury the dead, The his- torian Codlrey records that 2 000.000 citizens 00 Russia died ot small -pox in a single year. Whole tribes of the face American [learth ians were wiped by the scourge. Before there was vaccination in the British navy, cue -fifth of all the en- listed men died of small -Pox, Sir Gil- bert mane tette us in his writings. in 1052, whole races of men in Brazil eat by iithet o diesas0n. Iceland aeve *smitten ttinles tory ior to 1707. In Crantz's Greenland we flue that n that year ofyear 18,000 people died ot small -It x out of a population ot 80,000. The dead d the streets ileuses were de- 17ngland at that t me. Of course ,there was a violent de- monstration against Dr. Boylston—as might be expected, Elven some meet - bars of his own profession turned West him, From the pulpit he watt railed caging aud treated with cone tamely. Every method of interfer- ence was used. just es they are used to -day. Ben Jchnson was one b£ the scoffers and he wrote that, "I will ne'or ewe my health to a disease," Benjamin Franklin opposed vaccina- tion with a facile pen, but when he Yost his own son through small -pox be became a statutch advocate and to his autobirgraphy bitterly lament- ed the fact that .ite had not had the boy vaccitmted. You will readily see that vaccina tion has tts support itt historY, 00 well as Lite support of virtually every doctor of standing on the continent. From the time when it was first dis- ocvered, vaccination has steadily proven its value to sten. There is an abundance oC evidence, to be obtained for those People who sincerely want to weigh the facts be, tweet!. the dangers ot small -pox as a disease, and the harmlessness ot vat - emotion. as a preventive. People ct sound jndment will not besitete which line t' populated misery was everywhere. to choose, ADAMSQN' ! , pyE1 TI ES icy O. Jacobsson Duchess Te11sd Samarkand! nitbul, Singapore, Stories of KY's Edward's Days We propose to voature a kind word ne,a.fr_and to stied a toot for iia da for the donde art of erenchajr Jour - 20 Lady of FashioYl Spent ta�dettceIcor as wo lotto trio ari; sa wo 20 Minutes Putting o'n mourn its passings it is anti of the re' Her mat I Vete-able facts of to•dttY that imag; tnatl0u finds 'Wolf diverte d into Manx entertaining Stories ot Kipg strange stew channels and into more Edward's day0;' when aladY of fashion materltiUstic grooves,' while, moat un. had';to spend 20 minutes putting on fortunate of ail, it inereasingiy'iiude her itat, are boit! by the DI1c1ISSS of its reached bhwat'ted by, trio current- Ihnpreleta, a groat -aloe of the ex- temper, which frOWna upon such of lilmprass 10itgeuie, ,in her attractive ito manifestations tie d y-dremiug as books of reminiscences, "Things Pest' 1 in Consonant with the prevailing fkiutchhisoti), published with a tore, tempo• ift W#trd Uy Mr, ttoliert, tlIohens, Well, wo are not ono lightly 10 dealt `Tile duchess was the reigwen with the joys of vicarious jonrueying. entity of home, and was as well Malty a time have wo trod tris Royal known in London. No smart party Road to Romance by way ot our arm, was complete without her; and these push', wibh a gorgeous daydream. pages testtIV .to her unfatliug zest for mood paying all fares. Personally, wet' lite, RaYor a groat ovorstuued lounging' At Farnborough Stilt, ttie ox•pm' , chair, ,nootteoivably large, Inconceiv+ Tess s o m• "'Pee" Rot aim p house she often met the o ably tngenloue in its p ser Dame Ethel Smyth, who nod pie joy in its bulging yielding' have bean dreamed}. Dominion Ia its Seaport Nan -orlon I Coach, with ire two trained nurses in at Halitag, Saint John and Quebec 11 charge, has brought to the two or has for years given welome, a cheer, lag cup of tea and good advice to the women and children from immigrant ships, Thousands have passed through it. iia four bads, iCs 'medical sup• the Nurseries and as part of the fol-iw with tis Cour be for the sick and ire low -up work which it had long been plies, evident was needed on the frontiers .hard-working nurses it has spelled the Red Cross Outpost I-Iospitate were safety for men, womtlu and children. instituted in malty' provinces. To•daY, Nor has its use ended within its own forty-four of these useful Institutions! borders. During' Me time it has Peen en are scattered throughout remote sot' travelltng to attd fro the nurses have tlements in our hinterlautts. Nor is made 540 visits to, tate homes of set• this all I dere, have see many babies into the "Gold Fouud at Red Lake!" 'Pour world, have visited 18 schools and ex. years ago the uewepaPers all overiamine'd 203 school children and have Canada blazoned forth this news as met all emergencies is the district. to -day they are giving giaat headlines t the discovery of lignite to Norther three thousand families in the locality tltat0.ctital,help 'artd sense of securitY which come only when hospital faoili- ies and nursing care are available, But now has Come a further eve ttoa. Suet a year after the Coach moved tato Kakis a a, a 0 r , , to bicycle over from her cottage deltiha there change into evening clothes behind mighty dreams — adventures hay b i the park Oa one occasion, were assembled in' running and Surto tbite, the a•esnit bei Mel - game leaps, Ami beckoned to me an mend Mitis Smyth T bushes n been lived quite decently comparablq wkien -the guests to those of `Trader Horn and his• illi.. the drewing•roOm, I 13th what we really set out to say, she advanced towards' her hostess was this: that these journeys are int, ging et the eat" their most delightful momenta cont ng a settee ct Ilan- l cerned with names—namo5, we belt' nute later my aunt 11Seve, even more than that of whittle d whispered; `Elft they aro merely the symltols, Note of arrange un pen to [ie sure, ordinary, prosaic namesb so robe," such es New York, Paris, London; Whereupon obeyed and a certain Vienna: these conjure up things oe es- manual:ot. hitching up went on iu the sentially materially aspect -enormous, long gallery outside, buildings, cafes, fogs, Our journey, "My dear," said the great musician, lugs, however, are slot concerned with still breathless and wriggling, names evoking definite images, but tell you what's the matter, r bought 'rather with those that from them- e, new pair of stays at the 'grocer's and I selves breathe forth an ineffable I believe he sold me a bird cage by charm. mistake." And herewith we record three such A Pathetic incident names, of which, for us, not one is The,duchoss recalls a pathetic Met -I greater than the others: Stambul, dent, She was being Shown a saddle e Singapome clue Samarkand, o ur FiE Find, if You for with u broken stirrup leather; . their sibilant ion tea' leather broke when the `Prince Imperial , these names in ra- tried to mount lets horse a few mime tion, in their Orienkinte them right, iii the utos before he Was killed: richness of a s wereer leaking at it a shad- tura,' in motion picture thrillers. To While we i .indif- ow'fell across the open doorway, and the raison d'etre. we a.e wholly there Stood the black figure of the 'forma Our•conoern is with the de- Bmprese. She saw what we were 'light ot sweet sonde andt their secrettation, looking at and covered her face with 'haunting, evanes e her hands. "Cacltez tela,"- no older-' Stambul, Singapore, Samarkand 1 There is little of the substantial that these names evoke. Stan-Mid—per- haps the dirge of a weird flute; Singe- Pore—perhaps a babel' of strange toupee; Samarkand -= perhaps the The Explorer ri9 s With the first antarctic flight al- ready to his credit, together with the discovery of the iuealar 'charater of Graham. Lend, Sir -Hubert Wilkins again has sailed southward. His ;va- cation from polar exploration included a jaunt around the world in the Gaal Zeppelin. Now he goes back to the Job where the seasons are revbrsed and, when his "summer's" work Lo done, ire wit return to accompany the ed Graf on its projected Polar voyage, The flight in the antarctic whin. Sir Hubert made in December of last year Destroyingg was virtually a reconnaissance, al the o n flu at Churchill, b k 1 December, though It defined hitherto unknown Now is the •time of the year to pro- throbbing of a great brass cymbal. Ontario or the gold d I that the bouudat'ios of Autaratica. This sea - But this time Warndesnaing- regarding mus the peopl¢ decided tl Y arks on a far more ambiti- beet your. possessions agalast the tea- Those quite conventional images he latter are warning against the must have a permanent Outpost. The son he embarks more than 2000 ages of moths. Since we know that and nothing more palpable, t I tauti community busy anti td -day ells. plan—et flight of o ofrush Co' the d s whole co P h , nothing is more offensive to moths: But what vague, intangible wonders dangers o any I - Au -. - miles between -Hearst Land, which a li ase. it is easy to 0iseour- haunt those names! Just the breath goldfield at this time of the Year and tits 2s as accomplished tact, to Aug.., t than clean n _ hazards run hY hist 21st the Hial[ab°ka-ioapital wast ctiseovec¢d last year, and the .Bay of Gage th¢iit from parking iu our favorite of three wordst -and eshto threeworldsorllds are 'emphagold s the h I u individual.ctagold sealers who brave the peened, It has two wards of four' p. Byrd where 'Commander Riehatd belongings• Everything that is .wash- have opened no coie Why? wBecaus ss at this season. bode, a baby ward and a reoeptioual >;. Byrd has 1115 base. able, from velour hangings to chiffon ! quest, Provocative named Names The babyward was furnished ''Sf Hubert's proposed Flight would dresses, sltoutd be washed with soap of vast allure! Stambul, Singapore, Why? Because atter the. excite-ts.1room, T s the bottom. of the world them with load Samarkand .. respectfully, o WL Y i 0lttil'LL by the ICitvauians ot the Twine trace acres laud water.• Pack t all who are sue moat incidental to the Reil Lake dial 3 u thousands ot prospectors Cities, many other furnishings were la frau similar to that which he blazed as tees" will need pressIilg • tater acuity, wechallenge covers who ti donated Ionia,' and today the build- across the arctic baslri in the spring an how Things I Rciently intrepid to submit any they Pushed their way to the goldfields late d nl debt of six ma of 1928 with his brilliant 2200 -mile sltoukd be ing stands with o y a dred dollars against it. From the night from Alaska to Spitsbergen, small boy who rained his pet rooster I The vigor with which SirHubert to raise a few dollars tar the Outpost piles hie geographical research ex - the largest givers the whole cone- Icites admiration tor file explorer hi C;. aching for Health ,Canadian National Red Cross Hospital on Wheels Serves Pioneers By Anne Anderson Perry kn the late hours oC a frosty night last a that cannot be laun- deredbrushed thoroughly, lectured and aired in the sunshine. Be sure not to leave any sorted spots, for it is upon these areas that the moth is most likely to concentrate. When everything is as clean as you the Incorporated Secretaries' Ag60ei8^ bcan make it, the son the are ready to ,tion at Cambridge, Mr. I', W. Goode - D packed away g cul shell. The ' Hough, chairman of the Government Department a Agriculture Bulletin,' Committee on Education for Sales- Glothes Moths and Their Control," manehip, speaking of the need for ef- ficient indoor staffs, said:— "An ill-mannered, impatient, hard - voiced telephone operator is au abem. Motion which should not be tolerated is the year, extrema hardship, etck- nems and often death itself faced those who had staked their clalme, Real disaster threatened, but the Red Gross stepped in to prevent the most t" corse uences of their tiara- =rutty has shown that it was "sold" self, but also focuses attenttou upon which serious q li • entirety to the idea that a hos- the new tools transportation hood. d abali 00 rustled the Direct- to itss of or and Staff of the Ontario Red Cross�Pita1 is indispensable in any and all �thos who venture into tie unkncwn. to the scene and plans were at. once places. made to meet the needs. The Cana -1 So t0 mOrCoach oche iag is getting Sir Hubert has fields of lobo i them in the rale eof one of the world's thou National Railways cceoperated'readyy to most outstanding commuters, This at once by'placing a fully equipped lite frontier sections. An engine will hospital coach at their disposal. This 'carry it away lust 00 soon asorthe But new Itself self Is not meantime ontriand bpacentoho bbs- the Siding at I -Hudson, a Outpost is in fait g was. drawn to it Ito another sense it will novel: "move thin Science Monitor. winter when the thermometer regis- tered many degrees below zero. The nurse responded quickly to the call, though it meant a lonely theme mile walk to the shack of the fdreignor who was reported ill. On arrival she ( Gena a d heart -breaking scene. Q,huge man, with face contorted by pain, lay Ever since the days when Dick Tula moaning in deliriant on a cot beside Pin or other Picturesque highway Wil- (which sat his distressed wile trying caching a romantic, ad-, his hands, which were venturous and hazardousswathed to oil -sea point nearest to the Red Lake era and there the Red Gross aurses began 'on." It has done its work in a double their' ministrations of mercy which sense. As a hospital it has well served lasted during the rest of that mentor- the people for whom it was intended. able trek. IAO a misSiona0Y it has spread an idea. With the gradual settlement at the and educated a whole community and Reil Lake district tate need of the `inthe permanent Outpost 'which has Coach Hospital passed, but the G.N.R. Il taken He place, and whleh will grow was so greatly pleased with tete ser- with the needs of Ratcabeica it has left vices it had been able to perform Otto- the best kind of material. laths mads of c to hold quiet ing the gold rush that tits poach was es,— -- the undertaking, iced rags She could offered to the Red Grose permanetly IDLENESS the very word '`coach" etas Uaen and speak little English, but from the , for use where needed. Front this gen- offered is so tusttpportabie to man notated in our minds with clanger frightened e.ildren some idea of what Brous offer has arisen the travelling. ag to be completely Idle. For he. then the perils of the open road. To he had hapPaued, was gathexed. The hospital, which, after a survey of the Bels allbe hie nothingness, all his weak- re now that horse-drawn vehicles man, two days previously, iu attempt- Thunder BaY District, has disclosed nese, all rile thingnese, At s we ra k- sure. are almost a thing of the past and our ing to light the are with the sill of how urgently such a utility was re his 'Menem Sed from the deeps of lits Dick Tut Dins have falcon bo the far ,gasoline, had burned bout hands to1gttirod in that area of widely scatter- lsoul, there wih arts weariness, in. lucrative profession of shooting lite bone. Ills Wife, new and ignorautt i erl settiemeat, was sent into that re.l soul,, sadness, voxa rise disappoint, up bunics, HameChing of theft flavor of 1 t' d them � ag 1 romance has Sown from bite av glop three Years a. he preaches,. coach, d of as coach hospital, t to to went, despair.—Pascal. up AH befit Rho could, but the nurse Haw Moving up and down rho line, the , to ;that gangrene t.reateued if 1C I •••---^"" . . deem superior. — Christian Science Monitor. The Voice at the Telephone At the third annual conference of lists naptha, paradichlor0•benzine and camphor as belpful egoists is dis- heartening the moth. However, these substances are only helpful if inclosed with the articin in tightly sealed The Crisis he Australia Loudon Financial Tiniest The poll - tical difficulties (et Australia) are viewed with the more sympathy .and regret in this country id that they have come at a time when a deter- mined effort was being made to cheek the unduly lavisli borrowing which has peen .taking place and to put the Commonwealth an a sounder economic basis: Whether this sound policy will be carried to a successful Conclu- sion will he largely dependent upon the result of the fresh election and whlclt, must in any case have an .un- settling effect cn local business, The superior man practices before At but oven motor coaching omlees parry On all or more of the old traitrade.fuss Inot already prei0nt. It wins evident I tion of hazard. that the patient must be got to the Not a day passel+ that the news' hospital at fort William and at once I same fait to record incidents on thekf his life was to be saved. lexplaiu- highwaYs spiced whitI adventure, don- • ing laUortousiy to his tulle, sluing ger Or actual tragedy in which the .11er consent, sending word to the sec- motot' mean has played a premier I tion mnu to gag the Winnipeg fast part. We have become accustomed to i train, preparing the man for tate jour- visrt but. ' uo ever thought that a i rimy anti getting hint to the flag Ota- .0uere'"ra000 y coach, in ire day atter 'tion on a ra+ car tvcre all hard tastes, day ordinary service could stand as a ' but in an hour they were all ascotn- sud cbe for the deepest thrills of lite I lish00 and Jan was speeding out hie and death? Yot that Is exactly what ,way, in care of the aurae, toward Port a unittue Canadian National coach in the Thunder Bay district has berm do- ing for the past three years, where it has travelled Slowly ou its beneficent ,way from hamlet to hamlet among pioneers in that, epaceely settled sec- tion ot Northern Ontarto in which, heretofore, d0ctars, aurses and hos- pilafs have been. almost unknown quantities. The Comedian National Rahway has {railway save pini a jolt as Ragman trot attempted ilii, week alone. The "anti today the family Is / ari hli to t Red Crots has been its handmaiden of l as a going concern with the sturdy etumaultarianism; tate Red Cross l childrou growing up in tits knowledge. shelve, resident in 'the- coach, had that the now L'anadian is valttOd'and n what that ward may mean in aided as a national asset for whom lbs dangerous of 5urremo from stlifertng when . rho Red Cross and many other halt^ trig' hirrit atiin accituredent, 0t picaeesre 1 tutions and people care, ing has resulted in accidet, illn qr Indeed over etude the close of the "Mart Man very sick down the track at war the Red eticataway 10 been tmeettthe No. '1, Stetter," attttounaed a Odin. In a very p'& I:jtnd at trio door of the hoepltal 0oac11 worst Hoods of the new comers to the way, William. Hero amputation of bn ponds was found tc be imperative but eventually the man's lite was saved. Meantime the nurse returned to her coach and to look utter the bereft family in whose behest site enlisted the aoSstaace et social agencies; the Mothers' Allowance Board and local aympatitizers. When the maimed man vac discharged from the hospital the .Getting Reay: for Nesot Year "s Sig Rush .• _.__.__..._.-. A HOME-MADE 'TRAWLER 101 THE FAR NORTH Two Iceland a:Sheraton. spew skill by building steam traWler on banite of,Neison river, near packages Crom white the fumes cannot : in any oitlee, The 'vaioe' that teo the escape. They cannot be relied upon i customer rePreeehta the whole ftrmi strewa about on cloeet shelves or in and reflects its whole policy should be agreeable to the ear, convey ironed- ' ately a desire to serve and sympathy with the customer's troubles, and make the customer realize that he or she was regarded as being at the first importance, and one whose opinion and custom the firm valued highly. "'The Soft answer turueth away wrath: should be printed on a card and hang on every telephone in overt' business house; he added. 'Every telephone operator should as selected with as much care and for the same qualities as a broadcasting announcer; and everyone who speaks to a easterner A friend calked upon Michael Angelo on the telephone should try to be, an Uncle Rex 00 au AuntSophia," when he was finshing a statue. Sev bureau drawers. Heavy wrapping Paper or several) layers of newspapers make effective covering if folded over at the edges and fastened securely with gummed paper or strips of adhesive tape. It is advisable to wrap up the articles as soon as they are cleaned. As a final setegltaril, scrub the closet shelves with strong enema. It is doubtful if even the most enterprising moth could break through these precau- tions. TRIFLES oral days later the friend called again The scalptor was still at his work, The Simple Life but it -appeared that nothing hall been Johannesburg Sunday Times: 'rite ' �.accomPlisited 01000 the last visit. The sitnple lite, it seems, is not all it has Metal, looking at the ague, ex- peen cracked up to be, Instead of claimed: ensuring a peaceful old age, there is "You have been idle since I saw a stuistersomOthkng in simplicity that you Met," worms, itsway into the system until "By no moons," the sculptor re- eventually the average simple -lifer plied. "I have retouched this part, starts wearing straw iu his hair. No. and polished that. I have softened body Itas explained exactly wkly tris this feature, and brought out 'that should be, Perhaps it to that the muscle.I have given more expression simple life engenders a simple men- to this lip, and more energy to this tatty. On the other hand, it niay be leg" that the simple lite is not always uo "Well, well, but all.thoaa are le iaee;" simple as wo aro Iced to ',eliOve. Agama said the friend, there may be some truth in Professor 'It may be so," replied Angelo, "but 111rskkne e dictum that "It yea live In reollect that trifles make perfection, ce country cottage there is a grave and that perfection Is no trifle." ,, danger thatyou will look at yourself and become neurotic,' There are GREAT MEN many to whom that might welt be eta A mate must have either great mein plicable, but somehoty it seems too unaatteeiug for general aceeptanee. or great objects before kiln, otherwise s poos his powers degenerate as the meg- net's do when it has lain tor a long A GENTLE PATIENCE time without being turned towards He who walks through lite witkt an bbs right ornate; of the world,—Sean even. temper and a gentle patience, patient with himself, patient with others, patient with cli0ioulties and °rogues—he hoe an everyday great' Hess beyond that which 15 won in bat, Vent P. Richter. Mayne the fruit and vegetable mein iiudsOlt Bay tail t 1 ide Who should trotted¢ the tie Or shunted In cathoth'ats,—Dr. T)ew• are merging because that is the only way 'o c ec cantaloup,--Neisot (110;) blows. , eY.