Abstract

SMALLPOX, an ancient disease whose prevention has been so readily achieved since the days of Jenner, continues to manifest itself. Even in some parts of the United States the record is shameful. A number of states, especially in the West and Northwest, do not have compulsory vaccination laws. In 1924 Minneapolis had 860 cases, with 219 deaths. In 1931 a total of 30,232 cases were reported from the country as a whole. More recently, however, the morbidity figures have markedly declined, there having been reported only 346 cases in this country in 1945. Most physicians have never seen a case . . .

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