Small Pox
By L.J. Smith, Health
Officer
Reports continue to come from all parts of the state
regarding the prevalence of smallpox. The newspapers are full of appeals to the
people to vaccinated against this loathsome disease—a disease which causes
relatives, friends and neighbors to desert you when you are so unfortunate as
to contract it. The state has lost sympathy with the man who allows himself to
contract a disease that can so easily be prevented. The state has made adequate
provision for the protection of its citizens against smallpox, by furnishing
the public, free of cost, smallpox vaccine and a public servant to administer
it.
The pitiful condition of the negro afflicted with small pox
found in Norfolk and Southern station a few days ago, should serve as a
striking lesson to all who believe, or think they believe, that the one sore
produced by vaccination is worse than smallpox itself. The vaccination sore
does not cause your friends and neighbors to desert you, but is taken as a
badge of honor for every good citizen—no one need fear small pox if he has been
properly vaccinated. If you are unprotected against this disease it is plainly
your own neglect.
If this negro had taken advantage of free vaccination as he
should have done years ago, he would not be receiving help at the hands of our
ever ready and efficient Secretary of Associated Charities.
We wish to make special appeal to our colored people to take
advantage of free vaccination as the present epidemic is practically confined
to the colored people.
Vaccination is given free at the Health Department in the
City Hall every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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