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The Smax Pox Situation ol
Georgia.
The .email pox situation con¬
tinues fto give Dr. Harris, secre¬
tary of state Board of health,
great uneasiness. Few people ih
the state realize the extent to
which the disease has spread.
Nearly every county in mid¬
dle aud southern Georgia has
been afflicted. Dr. Hopkins says
the disease is not of such a mild
type as is generally supposed,
and he is of the opinion that the
deaths from the malady in the
State will average one every day.
“I have performed autopsies
on person# who have died of al¬
most every disease,” said Dr.
Harris, “even leprosy, and there
is nothing that I have ever seen
that is as horrible as a death
from small pox. It is too shock¬
ing to mention, and far too
shocking for publication. If the
people could know small pox as
the doctors know it they would
fly to vacinnation for refuge and
proteotion.”
It is strange that in an intelli¬
gent state like Georgia there
should be opposition to vacinna¬
tion, and yet that is the only
thing that prevents the disease
from being stamped out speedily.
County officials promise to en¬
force vacinnation and then fail
to do so. They are afraid of an¬
tagonism, and the people of their
own and other counties suffer.
The state board of health has no
authority to enforce vacinnation
by penalty and the only thing
that can be done is to threaten
quarantine. That is effective
sometimes in bringing the peo¬
ple to their senses, but it is not
fair to those who submit to vac¬
cination, and if it wore general
would paralize the business of
the 6tate.
The effect of vaccination was
shown in Houston county. Fort
Valley people had been living
under enforced vaccination and
when the disease spread ali over
the rest of Houston county and
there were hundreds and even
thousands of cases, it went right
up to the incorporate limits of
Fort Valley and stopped.
On the I2th of October Dr. Har¬
ris went to Albany on a tour of
inspection, and found a negro
who was visiting some relatives
and who had smallpox. The au¬
thorities refused to enforce vac¬
cination. In a few ^weeks there
were hundreds of cases in the
town, ar.d it is said that at one
time there were as many as five
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hundred. Finally vaccination
was enforced, and recently it was
stated that the city was clear of
the disease.
There is no saying how long
smallpox will trouble the state.
Nothing can stop it except vac¬
cination. for it is easily commu¬
nicated by clothing shipped from
one part of the state to the other
and proper disinfection is very
uncommon. Dr. Harris tells of
a man who had a broken leg in
Iowa and who was placed in a
house in which it w r as not then
recalled there had ever been any
smallpox. The man had not been
exposed to the disease, yet in a
few days he developed a case.
Investigation disclosed that while
lying on his bed the man had
pulled a peg from the wall and
f and in the hole a sma’l rag
which he threw upon the floor.
Still further investigation showed
that twenty eight years before a
man had smallpox in the house,
and it 13 supposed the rag which
the man with the broken leg had
pulled from the hole in the wall
had been used about the man who
had smallpox. The disease can
be caught by persons excavating
graves of those who have died of
the disease. Statistics show that
only about 7 per cent, of those
properly vaccinated ever contract
the disease.
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A Breslau Court Incident.
Breslau was the scene of a pain¬
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judge who sentences a man before
consulting a jury?" The jury ac¬
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Congressman Hepburn of Iowa is
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