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Writing in the British Medical Journal (21/1/1928, p.116), Dr L. Parry questions the vaccination statistics which revealed a higher death rate amongst the vaccinated than the unvaccinated, and asks: seven years. From 1886 to 1892, 25,474,370 revaccinations were recorded in Japan. Yet during this same period Japan had 156,175 cases of smallpox with 38,979 deaths representing a case mortality of nearly 25%. In 1896, Japanese parliament passed another act requiring every Japanese resident to be vacci- nated and revaccinated every 5 years. Between 1889 and 1908, there were 171,611 smallpox cases with 47,919 deaths, a case mortality of 30%. This case mortality exceeds the smallpox death-rate of the pre-vaccination period when nobody was vacci- nated, It is noteworthy that Australia, one of the least-vaccinated countries in the world for smallpox, had only three smallpox cases in 15 years, in comparison with Japan's record of 165,775 cases and 28,979 deaths in only 6 years of compulsory vaccina- tion and revaccination. , In an article, "Vaccination in Italy", which appeared in the New York Medical Journal, July 1899, Chas Rauta, Professor of Hygiene and Material Medical in the University of Perugia, Italy, points out: "How is it that smallpox is five times as likely to be fatal in the vaccinated as in the unvaccinated? "How is it that in some of our best vaccinated towns—for example, Bombay and Calcutta—smallpox is rife, whilst in some of our worst vaccinated towns, such as Leicester, it is almost unknown? "How is it that something like 80 per cent of the cases admit- ted into the Metropolitan Asylums Board smallpox hospitals have been vaccinated, whilst only 20 per cent have not been vaccinated? "How is it that in Germany, the best vaccinated country in the world, there are more deaths in proportion to the population than in England—for example, in 1919, 28 deaths in England, 707 in Germany; in 1920, 30 deaths in England, 354 in Germany. In Germany in 1919 there were 5,012 cases of smallpox with 707 deaths; in England in 1925 there were 5,363 cases of smallpox with 6 deaths. What is the explanation?" “Italy is one of the best vaccinated countries in the word, if not the best of all,...for twenty years before 1885, our nation was vaccinated in the proportion of 98.5%. Notwithstanding, the epidemics of smallpox that we have had have been some- thing so frightful that nothing before es the invention of vaccination could equal them. During 1887, we had 16,249 deaths from smallpox; in 1888, 18,110, and 1889, 13,413." wenn niin Son NOL WME DESL OF AIl,...10T In Scotland, between 1855-1875, over 9,000 children under 5 was vaccinated in the 5 died of smallpox despite Scotland being, at that time, one of the —_the epidemics of smallp most vaccinated countries in the world. In 1907-1919 with only a third of the children vaccinated, only 7 smallpox deaths were recorded for children under 5 years of age. ee) . In Germany, in the years 1870-1871, How as It that smallpox . five over 1,000,000 people had smalipox, of _ times as likely to be fatal in which 120,000 died. Ninety-six per cent the vaccinated aé in the of these had been vaccinated. An i address sent to the governments of the unvaccinated? various German states from Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, contained py L, Parry, British Medical Journal, 1928 the following comments: ",..the hopes placed in the efficacy of the — virus as perastaias SC _ ed enti leceptive." — a Superstition, Dr J. W. He "Vaccination is a monstrosity, a mis- begotten offspring of error and igno- rance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine... Believe not in vaccination: it is a worldwide delu- sion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences mea- sured today by tears and sorrow with- out end." = §=6From his book, The Vaccination Superstition, Dr J. W. Hodge writes: In The Philippines, prior to US takeover in 1905, case mortali- ty from smallpox was about 10%. In 1905, following the com- mencement of systematic vaccination enforced by the US gov- ermment, an epidemic occurred where the case mortality ranged from 25% to 50% in different parts of the islands. In 1918-1919 with over 95% of the population vaccinated, the worst epidemic in The Philippines’ history occurred, resulting in a case mortality of 65%. The highest percentage occurred in the capital Manila, the most thoroughly vaccinated place. The lowest percentage occurred in Mindanao, the least vaccinated place owing to reli- gious prejudices. Dr V. de Jesus, Director of Health, stated that the 1918-1919 smallpox epidemic resulted in 60,855 deaths. The 1920 Report of The Philippines Health Service contains the following comments: "After a careful consideration of the history of vaccination gleaned from an impartial and comprehensive study of vital sta- tistics, and pertinent data from every reliable source, and after an experience derived from having vaccinated 3,000 subjects, | am firmly convinced that vaccination cannot be shown to have any logical relation to the diminution of cases of smallpox... "Vaccination does not protect, it actually renders its subjects more susceptible by depressing vital power and diminishing natural resistance, and millions of people have died of smallpox which they contracted after being vaccinated." In the USA, 25 June 1937, Dr William Howard Hay addressed the Medical Freedom Society on the Lemke Bill to abolish com- pulsory vaccination. He stated: “| have thought many times of all the insane things we have advocated in medicine, that is one of the most insane—to insist on the vaccination of children, or anybody else, for the preven- tion of smallpox, when, as a matter of fact, we are never able to prove that vaccination saved one man from smallpox... "| know of one epidemic of smallpox comprising nine hundred and some cases, in which 95 per cent of the infected had been vaccinated, and most of them recently... "it is now thirty years since | have been confining myself to the treatment of chronic disease... | have run across so many histo- ties of children who had never seen a sick day until they were “From the time in which smallpox was practically eradicated in the city of Manila to the year 1918 (about 9 years) in which the epidemic appears certainly in one of its severest forms, hun- dreds after honbame of thousands of people were yearly vacci- nated, with the most unfortunate result that the 1918 epidemic looks prima facie as a flagrant failure of the classic immunisa- tion towards future epidemics." In Japan, 1885, 13 years after compulsory vaccination com- menced in 1872, a law was passed requiring revaccination every NEXUSe23 Professor Rauta has stated: AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993