Abstract
More interest in early vaccination of infants has developed in recent years than ever before because of more concern for public health and preventive medicine, and the desirability of having as many as possible in the general population immune to the various preventable diseases. For the most part compulsory vaccination in the United States applies only to children before they enter the public schools. This allows vaccination in the majority of children to be deferred until school age, whereas it has long been established, although not so widely carried out, that infants, even new-born infants, bear vaccinia well, with a moderate local and insignificant constitutional disturbance, such as a febrile reaction, an altered well being and an unfavorable effect on nutrition. Statistical tabulations1of vaccinial encephalomyelitis are uniform in disclosing that its occurrence is lowest among infants vaccinated in the early months of life. This fact has undoubtedly stimulated
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