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THE OMAHA SUNDAY ttKK: JANUARY 16. SoiO. Some Things You Want to Know The Spread of Vaccination Tho un of varrlnatton In 11. picvention f typhoid fever S'Tvpk iirhIii to remind the wi.i'lfl of the west debt It owr to Kdward .N'linrr. who Ifttrned thr. great rccrct from a milkmaid, 110 yrars nun. Me flint proved tlir onrrertnens of IiIh theory hy trxioulat IriK little .Ik mis rhlp. the firft humnn lielnf who was ever varrlnaled, and then exposing: Mm to pntlcnts In a smallpox lioKpltal. Tho discoverer took other means to thoroughly tent the treatment before, he rer-mimcnded It to the world. While there are those who Mill doubt the efficacy of vaccination, Ita value la really well attested an anything; ran be proven xhort of a multiplication table. The ex perience of the Philadelphia Municipal IWpltal, but one Instance of thousands, mlffht be cited. Although 9.000 cases were treated there during a term of years, not a slnatlo physician, nurse or attendant who hail been properly vaccinated contracted the disease. Of 3.S00 otses treated during une outbreak, not a Hlnxle rase waa of a person who hid been vaccinated within the recognised term of years. During the progress of the epidemic It became neces sary to have additional quarters, and a large force of carpenters were employed. Only two of the workmen had not been vaccinated within a proper length of time, and only theee two contracted the disease. Vaccination for typhoid fever, though based on something of a different prin ciple, la somewhat like that of smallpox. In smallpox the live germs of cowpox, re garded as the animal form of the human disease, are used. In vaccinating against typhoid, the dead germs of typhoid Itself are used. The germs are gathered and then cultivated In bouillon. When they rnultlply by the millions they are suddenly Htiicken dead. The subject to be vac c'nrted then V" SOO.000,000 of "these dead germs put Into hfe blood. If your house were Infected by dead bodies, you enn imagine that It would not be very habit able. 80 It la with the typhoid germs. The dead bodies of their fellows lying around In cuch piufuarlon make the human system unattractive for them. Ten daya are allowed to lapse after Hie first dose of 500.000,000 microbe corpus, and then a second dose of 1,000,000,000 Is applied. After that there Is practically no chance for the live microbes to survive, because of the toxic condition of the blood that develops. But In order to make as uranco absolutely certain,, some practi tioners recommend the third vaccination. After this the typhoid germ is certainly rendered harmless. ' , Peace hath her victories, and even armies may help win them. The great -value of vaccination . In typhoid fever ' has been proved more through army medical prac tice than elsewhere. Clermany gives some notaule statistics In the treatment of her South African troops. There It was found that of vaccinated troops only fifty per 1,000 took typhoid, while ninety-eight per t.000 of the unvacclnated ones contracted It. Of deaths there were only 3.28 per 1,000 among the vaccinated soldiers, against 12.00 among the unvacclnated ones. The same proportions obtain In the British colonial possessions, and also in the United States army experiment now being made. Philadelphia is Just now offering to the world some rare statistics on the sublect of typhoid fever. While they do not relate directly to vaccination, they do throw much light on the subject which will be helpful In the study of vaccination for fever. Kor instance, they will afrord a study of the recurrence of t'ypholp In in dividuals, which is one of the points of interest in the possibilities of immunity from typhoid. In this report grrt 6S.000 catses were tabulated, covering the health office records of the city for eleven and a half years. It shows tho remarkable and surprising fact that typhoid is not. after all, a summer diseuse. It reached Its high est point In the month of February, dur ing which month there were 8,1 la cases, Its lowest utage was In July, when there were i.'JOi cases. March had the second highest record, and January, April and Muy also show upward of 8.000 cases. Sep, tember Is the highest mopth of the heated term, with 6,055 cases. The fatalities amounted to a little less than one patient out of nine. The various states of the union are do- SKIN PURITY lug all they ran to foxtcr a sentiment In favor of vaccination against smallpox, but no Htate has put Its case In more strik ing form than Illinois. Through Its Hoard of Health It has Issued a pamphlet en titled "This Man Was Not Vaccinated.' On the front puge Is his picture In health. and he Is a fine looking specimen of ro bust manhood. Beneath his picture Is the added legend, "He did not believe In It." The pictures following show his progress from the day he contracted the disease until It reached its most serious stage. Nothing can be Imagined that would have a deeper effect on the mind of a child. There Is another picture which reveals a trio of children, two of whom were vaccinated and the other not. Two of the little bodies are free from all trace of the disease, while the third Is dreadfully dis figured from It. The lesson is strongly pointed out to children In this way. In addition to Its striking and Impressive Il lustrations the little book has much text on the subject, all written In such a sim ple, direct way that it Is bound to exer cise a deep Influence on the mind of the child who reads It. The pamphlet refers .to the fact that smallpox was once so prevalent that It was a common saying that Lnen could not es cape love nor smallpox,' and that owing to the ravages of this terrible disease beau tiful women were once so scarce that they were curiosities. It states that even the Father of His Country did not escape It, his face bearing the well known pits which mark those who have been Its vic tims. It traces the decreasing ratio of cases wherever public sentiment has made It compulsory for all people to be vacci nated and recommends that the right of suffrage and other privileges of cltlxen shlp depend upon vaccination. On the whole It is one of the most effective pieces of public health literature ever Issued and should serve as a model for all commu nities interested in the subject. The culture of vaccine virus Is one of the most Interesting things that science is doing for mankind. The most of that which Americans use comes from an orig inal case of cowp6x which occurred In Beaugeny, Germany, In 1871. Some Is used which comes from a caae In Catas sett, Mass., In 1KS1. It is made at labora tories under government Inspection The posterior half of a healthy calf's! belly is haved and scarified in parallel lines and I hen inoculated with virus. After the vesicles ripen the virus! is taken from them under the most sanitary conditions and Is- then mixed with glycerine and al lowed to ripen from four to six weeks. Kery detail of the work must be done j utmost care to prevent con- with the taglon, Those, who argue that vaccination Is as dangerous as smallpox Itself will derive small comfort from figures In the hands of the public health and marine hospital service, the splendid governmental agency for the preservation of the national health. These figures show that of 1278,000 cases observed In Germany there were only thirty-five deaths from vaccination. In another authenticated series of observations there was but one death In (15,000 vaccinations. In a series of 40.000 cases In Canada there was nut a single death reported. The danger from vaccination is In nowise comparable to the illness from smallpox. The history of the eighteenth century shows how terrible and widespread were the ravages of this fearful plague, It was called the Attlla of diseases, the very scourge of Uod, overrunning countries and destroying whole populations. Six hundred million people died from It In th? century whose end marked the discovery of vac cination. More than 90 per cent of the whole population had the smallpox during their lives. It caught the king in his palace and the peasant In his hovel; the rich man was attacked as readily as the pauper and the cultured were no more immune than the Ignore it. Most contagious of diseases, and second only to leprosy in Its loathsomeness, It Is little wonder that Parliament gave Jenner grants amounting to more than JIKO.OOO, that Napoleon liberated prisoners of war upon his recjuest and that Thomas Jefferson wrote him that so long as man lived upon the earth, with disease for his portion, the name of Jenner must ever be fresh In the human mind. The world cannot forget this benefactor of millions living and generations unborn. Yet the suggestion for the great discovery came from an humble milkmaid. In the pres ence of Jenner she declared that she could not take smallpox because she had suffered frcrh cov.pox. Truly out of the muiil.li of Ignorance proceeded great wisdom. Once planted In the mind of Jenner, ths Idea grew until It developed Into the most wide spread practice of preventive medicine the world has known. With the advent of vaccination for ,typhoid, we are led, to hope that other diseases may yet be fore fended against In th same way and that with sanitation guarding the gates of health, man's complete declaration of In dependence against contagion may be writ ten before the second century of Jenner's discovery has passed. By TBJEDEBIC J. HABKIIT. Tomorrow Conservation and Clvlos. , L- As Others See Us Omaha Eeviewed by an Eminent French Priest in His Work on "America of Tomorrow" Gets a Gracious Commendation for Its In dustry, Commerce, Educational, Social and Religious Activities. Is Best Promoted by CUTiCURA Soap and Ointment ine constant use or (Juti cura Soap, assisted when necessary by Cuticura Oint ment, not only preserves, purifies and beautifies the Skin, scalp', hair and hands of infants, children and adults, but tends to prevent clogging of the pores, the common cause of pimples, blackheads, Inflammation, irritation, redness and rough ness, and other unsightly and annoying conditions. . .. Dmti: I-ondoe. 1? f-tierterhouet Ba ! Parte. 10. n u d l Cheueane d'Aoi a; Australia. R lowrje a . hj.1i.ey. India, B. K. Paul. C alrutla: I tilua, fiori Koun rru 0 ;Jain. 1. P alerur. lid., Tuaiu; tv Atricn. I-ennon, I. id . Caue limn, etc.! ..?.-. ""'w rirus (turn. Corp.. Hula Prou. rot-trr. s2-paiia Cuttrura Book, an Author HJUx Cera aad InsUiam wl iaM aud Hill. The good Abbe Felix Klein of Paris, who Is author of a large number of works of political and social science, paid the United States a Visit in 1907, and has. just pub lished his Impressions under tlte title of "L'Amertque Uemaln" "The America of Tomorrow" in which he devotes consld erable space to recounting his visit to Omaha, where he -was a guest of Biahop Scannell. Abbe Klein says: Omaha, in Nebraska, on the Missouri, almost In the very center of the large continent. Two years before, the bishop of that city, while visiting in Paris had brought me word from Ireland, and we had spent a day together. When bidding him goodbye, I had promised to pay him a visit. And he had laughed heartily at the idea of my coming so fan Was It not, thn Important to show him that the French are men of their word? However, Omaha Is well worthy of at tention. M. de Roulslers, in . his "Vie Amerlcalne" (Amtrlcan Life) does not omit to point Oraahi out as a "meat city' next In importance to Chicago and Kansas City, a depot where the railroads- daily Unload thousands upon thousands of cattle. hogs and sheep, raised in the surrounding territory. The Immense stretches of corn fields and prairies . make necessary these stock yards, (or enclosures in which the animals are placed when taken out of, the cars In which they are shipped), and the packing' houses, that Is to say the houses where they kill, out up, can, or pack the meat, and send it off to the farthest cor ners of America or even uf the world. Omaha holds third place in this commerce. In 1SVJ, Omaha received 213,lii0 animals; In l'JOfl ah ; received 6,101, 31S and meat packing la far frjin being her only resource. In her entire ommerce, which in 1306 sur-1-asstd 2,000,000,000 of francs In some meas ure due to the large railroads, especially the I'nlou Pacific, which has done great service to that part of the United Stales It Is necessary to give an important place to cereals, corn and wheat, to the nianu factuiu of materials for the railroads, to the exchange with the west and north west, net leaving out the smelters for ore sent, from the Rocky mountains; a work so exuctlng as to be almost, formidable, the siKht of which has, left me very pleas ant Impr. unions, shown to me as it was, hy the proprietor of the principal estab lishment. It is true that the automobile which tok us to these mighty furnaces hud the kinduess to' take us an hour later, with, astonishing speed to see the Country tlub Omaha In the year we visited It, ,1007, had beaten all lis records. In spite of the genera! crisis of the proceeding months. S.utlstlcs valued the new building going on at 2 1, 0:C 0)0,000 of francs, round numbers, tile manufactured products at 1.100,000,000 francs, the profit from corn alone In Ne braska is estimated at J7?,iW5.l40. Omaha manufactured 2O,0.OuO francs worth, of butter; this It seems gave her first rank In the world for this product 8 he holds third place in the sale of corn, fourth for wheat and sixth for oats. Property to the vaJue of 53,OU0,Oi0 francs waa sold diirlns 'the year. Out of 61G alarms turned In only ten fire are recorded at a loss of ubove J.",00. Let us forget these humiliat ing fifcuis and turn our attention to the Uith statistics. The newspaper record of January for 1:07 gives the number as S.334, an inereise of t over the year This Is decidedly ahead of the number of deaths recorded. The cliy of Omaha, half a century old, claims today 150,000 inhabitants. Let it be aid. without intent to Injure the clty'a pride, that aich ar lncreaje. which would be prodigious In the old world, represents only the nfcrnial growth for large cities In the I'nited States. , Omaha does not let herself be entirely absorbed in pursuit of her material wealth, which is estimated at almost 2,000.000.000. Like all other cities of America, she gives education much careful attention, and puts at the service of her ) students, eleven colleges, simy-seveii schoola.) publlo and private. Since I was tnwe In August, I could not visit these schools In session (all were let out for their vacations). But favoring circumstances made me acqainted with the most important institution In the city, Crelghton university, which is like those of St. Louis and of Georgetown, near Washington, in the hands of the Society: of Jesuits. I visited several school and realised that such Institutions In France may well envy those of America. Science and letters notably have entree to this city Institution, a veritable palace surrounded by gardens; It has also n course in medicine, (completed by a splen did hospital), a course In dentistry, and in pharmacy, and possesses complete equip ment in the way of laboratories, with fin est of apparatus. One thing which distinguishes Crelghton university, remarkable - us It Is In these matters also, especially In regard for classic culture, la that part of Its course is free. It is easy to se that to make Oils possible, or even td found such a vast Catholic institution in such a place, excep tional liberalities are necessary. These be long to Edward and John Crelghton, true founders and god-parents of the university. In all generous America there are ho other Catholics who, to our knowledge, have done so much for education as these two brothers. No one knows exactly how much they have given, but It Is clear from the general air which distinguishes It that Crelghton has cost a respectable tminbei of millions (francs). Kdwarri and John, sons of n pour Irish man, were these Americans who grew rich with the country. They are counted among the eminent pioneers of the west. r'rnm stock raising, trading, blinking and c in eduction of tic firs telegraph lines across the spaces, still uninhabited In places from the east to t'allfoinln. they drew tho re sources of which thev consecrated so Inge a share to the education of their fellow citizens. Kilwsid, the older, perhaps the greater. In any esse the more simple hearted, lived from lV till l7t The sec ond, John, tiled In February, I'M)'. had received the titles of colonel, of Chevalier of Saint Gregory, of Unman count, and was one of those who created the begin Ings of the packing business. The church of Omaha Is not as Imposing as Crelghton university. As In many dio ceses, the bishop lives In the residence section, while his offices are downtown. The" vicar general, Monslgnor Colanerl, who lives with the bishop, passes his time at this office, llaviug come as a young man from Italy, he has kept from his own land a national aptitude for ecclesiastical gov ernment, and to this he adds the actlvliy and adrlotness which characterizes the Americans. The diocese has Its Importance; founded In 1SS3, It has now ISO churchrs. The Catholic population, according to the old census of HWO, was tS,17r: now It must be around SO.OflO. One Interesting fact, true also In most of the other dioceses, is that, thanks be to Uod, to the great honor and advantage of the Catholic church, the births considerably exceed the deaths. The figures for 1177 are 3,000 baptisms to l,6i7 funerals. ' The Episcopal residence is a small, neat frame house, not distinguished In any way from its neighbors, situated on a quiet street. It has no fence, but Is surrounded by a green lawn, restful to look upon, with several trees. Simple, good, studious and grave, Mgr. Beannell, with ascetic face, his love of retirement recalls our austere bishop, Mgr. Dupont of Logeb, Cardinal Perrand or Ciudmal Huhlrd. But let us picture to ouruelves If possible one of our venerable prcli tes not hesitating after lunch to Install himself at his doorway, in full vltw of passersby, with a cigar In his mouth; in short, a cathedral window saint in a rocking chair. Everyone, however and why notV-flnda this natural) even the squirrels who skip from their tree to take bread or nuts from his hand. Do beasts and men be come less savage In Amcrlce than In the old world 7 How I did 'appreciate these days of hos pitable repoRe after the busy, agitated weeks In Chicago. I didn't sleep all the time, however, and the quiet bishop had me visit, as well as the university and the offices of the dlo'ccse, the Sacred Heart convent, where I found the sisters of un usual intellect, and the work of the Good Shepherd, which is the admiration of Cath olics, and many other Interesting places and buildings. I saw where the corner stone of the cathedral dedicated to Saint Cecelia was to be placed. With its grand and harmonious dimensions, with Its mag nificent double tower, it will probably con stitute the most beautiful building in the city. New cathedrals! This is perhaps the most interesting and absorbing of all sub jects to Catholic Americans. It seemed as though every state in the union had either one or more of them which was go ing to be consecrated, was being built or tor which they had begun to raise funds. Just from memory I recall them In Rich mond, Va.; in Newark, N. J.; In Covington, Ky.; In Dallas, Tex.; In Pittsburg, Pa.; In Helena, in Seattle, in St. Louis, in Salt Lake City, In Boise, In Omaha and St. Paul. While in other Catholic countries they remain powerless to preserve the ca thedrals built by their fathers centuries ago, or even to keep their property, their American brothers are building up now ones everywhere, and Vee them, or rather make them, spring up under warm rays of energy and liberty like flowers under a generous sun of April or May. DR. STORMS Y. M. C. A. SPEAKER President of College at Ames Will Deliver Address Sunday at As sociation Auditorium. President A. B. Storms of the Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames will de liver an address at the Young Men's Chris tian association to members and friends Sunday. He will talk upon "The Value of Peraonal Religion for the Average Man." Dr. Storms Is widely known as a clergy man and as an educator. 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