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In course of time there will, apparently, be an
ever-increasing per centage of unprotected persons
for every 1,000 of the population, and these in their
turn will probably be the fuel that will have to be
consumed in the outbreak of Small Pox that most
certainly must sooner or later occur.
All this is in strong contrast with the practice
in Germany and Japan ; for in these progressive
countries, vaccination and re-vaccination are
practiced periodically, with the result that Small
Pox does not occur, and there are no Small Pox
Hospitals.
As I believe in keeping alive some little
knowledge of the subject, I quote for the information
of those residents in the district who may be
tempted to stray out of the way of safety, an
extract from a recent report.
"At the time vaccination was introduced by
Jenner, Small Pox caused more than one-tenth of
all the deaths of the human race. Fifty million
people died in Europe from this disease during the
eighteenth century. In the sixteenth century the
disease appeared in Mexico, and 3,500,000 of the
population died from it in a few years, leaving
some provinces almost depopulated. In one year,
1707, in Iceland, 18,000 died, the entire population
being but 50,000. In Greenland 70 per cent.
(think of it) of the people died of this complaint in
1734."
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