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DR. HA YDEN VA CCIN TELLS PEOPLE OF MILL VILLAG AND THAT RESPONSIBLLIT '? WITH ALL IN Dr. A. H. Hayden, epideinioligisf of the State Board of Health, sepakisg before a large audience at the Albibevills Cotton mill school Wednesday night, saii that the state law requiring vaccination of school children as a preventive of smallpox ie very specific and strict and that re apOnability for its enforcement rests on all in authority, whether parents, teachers, superintendents or trustees. He emphasized that smallpox is a preventable disease, and the fact that there has been no epidemic in this ofanty recently does not mean that there will be none, but on that account the next one is much more likely to be severe. This is true, he eaid, because once an epidemic begins people who are not prejudiced against vaccination hasten to avail themselves oif this means of protec tjon, while during periods when there are no cases in a community people are inclined to forget the danger of this dreadful disease and discontinue vaccinating children. The state law. Dr. Hayden ex plained, provides that all children fadfore they shall toe admitted to any public school, shall have been vaccinated for smallpox during the first, 'u ' sixth, and fifteenth years. The penalty for failure of superintendent, ? school board or principal, parent or ' t guardian, to enforce the terms of this provision of the law is a fine V of $100 or 30 days in jail. Dr. Hayl den said that it was a well known fact that the law is not being enI; forced in this county. Outside of the B* i* -i-*-. % 1 pemuty Ol Uie raw, ur. aayuen saiu, & the obligation of all in authority to ,j * take every precaution to keep from children in their charge the marks v of this disease is morally binding. iThe death of any child from smallpox or disfigurement due to the disease should f^e directly chargeable to parents, teachers and trustees and there should be exacted a suitaJble penalty. i Thep repared part of Dr. Hayden's address follows: > Smallfcox is the most communica: Me or contagious of all diseases with p which health authorities have to r deal, but at the same time it is the most easily and surely preventable r through vaccination. Of all pre| ventaWe diseases, it is the easiest to ccatrofl, if individual and community I*!;.; cooperation can <be obtained. So cer| tain is this and so well is this fact known to all classes of persons, that \ all who contract the disease after ! having reached the age of discretion r are personally responsible and are certainly not deserving of sympathy, but* on the contrary, are deserving of severe censure for thus making themselves a serious menace to the y health and happiness* of the community in which they live. 'Further, those who are responsible for the care of children should these chilv drens contract the disease, are deserving of severer censure and are K also guilty of ja crime against childhood should these children or any of them, lose their lives or their eyesight, or even be disfigured from the effects of this most loathsome of all diseases. Furthermore, such nersorra are cruiltv of a flaerant vio ; * ifttkm of a tew of the state, which for the protection of its children, requires all children to be vaccinated "during the first sixth and l&th years" and makes it "the duty oi every parent, guardian or other person charged with the care of or responsibility ?r- any child tp see thai the child is vaccinated so often at nay be directed by ordinance of th< incorporated city or town in whici the child resides, or if not a residenl of an incorporated city or town, so often as the rules and regulations of the state board of health shall di< rect. "Further," says the law referred to, " no superintendent of any insti tutfon of learning and no schoo] hoapd or principal of any school it this jrtate shall admit as a pupil an; child or person who can not product satisfactory evidence of having beer vaccinated so often as the ordinance * of the city *r town in which the aebotf is located within the city oi town, so often as the rules and regulations of the state (board of health may direct." As both the law of the m. - --. ' ii DISCUSSES ATION LAW E THAT STATE LAW IS STRICT Y FOR ENFORCEMENT LIES I AUTHORITY. ; state and the roles and regulations . of the state board of health require > all children in the state to be vacci. nated during the first, sixth and 15th . years, and positively forbids that any . authority shall admit any child into i any school into the state who shall . not have been successfully vaccinai ted before enrollment, it is a self, evident fact that all parents, guar. dians, school teachers, school princi1 pals and superintendents, school ; trutees and Iboth the county superi visors and the state superintendent of education are co-equally responi sible for the protection of (minors to the age of 15 years against smallpox ana are aux aeserving vx ccusuic iui , the presence of any unvaccinated children in the schools of the state and are responsible, each and every one, for the death, deformity or serious results from smallpox if contracted during the school life of such , children. The law of the state provides a penalty -for the offense committed by the parties above named in allowing unvaccinated children to attend any school in the state. It is $100 or .30 ?ays in jail for each and every offense, and it is the duty of all in authority, especially the local boards of health, to see that this law is enforced and wnen violated the offending -parties brought promptly to' trial. rm._ 1 xne compulsory vaecmnutm iuw was passed in 1905 when it was estimated* that there were at least 15,000 cases of smallpox in South Carolina. Under the enforcement of the law at that time the disease was practically stamped out. Had the i school auhoritries obeyed the law pass ed in 1905 since that year until now . and refused, the admission of unvaccinated children into the schools of i this state, there would probably have [ been no material on which the diB, ease would now be comparatively, if not entirely, unknown in the i' state. j It can ot be doubted that if the . compulsory vaccination law is fully ,1 complied with from now on by the , school authorities of iSouth Carolina ,' the disease will within a few years be a rarity in if not altogether ab,1 sent from the state. There is not a single valid objec' tion to vaccination against smallpox 'as is proven by the experiences 'throughout the world. "In the ' Philippine islands in the past few 1 years the United States authorities 'vaccinated 3,515,000 persons without a single death or any serious I post-vaccmal complications." "Since two successful vaccinations usually protect against smallpox for life, , the question is largely one of secur1 ing the vaccination of infants and ! school children. This is the vexed ' question of compulsory vaccination." Compulsory vaccnation, however, is a law and should foe rigidly enforced. "To secure complete immuniJty persons should be vaccinated on an average of every seven years. | The past year has been in this 1 state one of the most widespread , I epidemics of smallpox that has come 'to its people in many years, and it . | is one largely if not solely due to the violation of the compulsory vac* ! ci nation law by the school authorities of the state. Smallpox is eonq tracted practically only (by contact YY1UU a, pviovu DUUViUl^ <%ll BIT . tack <rf the disease. Infection by air . borne germs of the disease is not ad? ; mitted by modem authorities at i least as far as air out of doors is con cerned. Even Within a house in L whico a case of smallpox is present the fiances of infection by this i means is practically nil. The infect5 ing virus of the disease is in the . skin lesions and most probably in ail of the excretions of the body of the [ infected person. It is easily under. stood then that infection iby flies as [ carriers is not only possible but proi bable, hence the necessity of screenr ing the house or room which a per5 son suffering from smallpox is oc{ cupying, and the proper supervising 5 over, the disposal of all excretions 3 from the body of the patient and the r clothing, bed linens and utensils used . in the sick room. The disease may i occur anywhere and at any time, and j no community is exempt from the /luck vstrikeJ Cigarette To ?Afll in ftiA delicious Burley tobacco flavor. It's Toasted ' (81 ' FERTILIZER FOR PEACHES Clemson Expert Giro# Advice to Growers of Fruit. t Clemson College, July 25.?With the increasing attention given to home arid commerical orchards in this state many inquiries are being received by the horticulturists concerning fertilizers for peaches, .says Prof. C. C. Newman, horticulturist, n r*M A 4-1* A "^/v1lA7TT?nr? OtlrfWAUVI vyjiv auan^o wit iv^uwiu5 tions. If the trees are not of bearing age and are making a growth of 18 to 24 inches -when properly cultivated very little fertilizer wll be needed. On a bearing orchard, however, 800 to 1000 pounds of fertilizer per acre should be applied during March or early April. This may be scattered broadcast around the trees after plowing and before harrowing, or be fore plowing, if the ground is to be harrowed later. It is best, however, to/mix the fertilizer thoroughly with the first few inches of top soil. On sandy*!oam soil the fertilizer for peaches should be analyzed ab >ut 8 per $ent phosphoric acid, 4 per cent nitrogen, and 4 per cent potash. On fertile land with a clayey subsoJ the potash may be reduced to 2 per cent. it is easy to appiy more ienanzer than is necessary and thereby cause the trees to make abnormal growth, which will necessitate very heavy pruning. For trees that are ripening a crop of fruit has been killed by frost, one-half the amount orf fertilizer recommended above should be all that is necessary provided the trees are properly cultivated through the growing season. In other words, it may be said that one-half the fertilizer is required to ripen a crop of fruit and the other half to .make sufficient growth and strength for next year's crop. possibility of an outbreak of the disease. It is the duty of all local health boards and all municipal authorities, school trustees, principals and teachers of schools and county supervisors in all parts of the state to see that the compulsory vaccination law is enforced. It is tho people's duty to see that the authorities discharge their full Hufnr in +Vm Tnat+pr nnrl +V10+ ari+hnn+ delay. The state board of health stands ready to advise and ito assist in this as in all other health matters if their advice and assistance is needed and asked. The state 'board of health, however, is poweriess to help those who do not or are unwilling to help themselves." NOTICE OF LAND SALE By virtue of the authority vested in me by a certain deed of Trust, I will sell at public auction, on the 1st day of August 1921 at Abbeville Court House, S. C., at 11 A. M., or as soon thereafter as practicable, the following described real estate: All that lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the City of Abbeville, in the Conuty of Abbeville, in the State of South Carolina, fac mg on snort screes leading irom Magazine Street to Jail Street, and being bounded by lot of Jim Buchannan, by lot of Harriet Vance, by lot of Thomas Culbreth, and by Street separating this lot from lot of G. A. Harrison. Terms of Sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. D. H. HILL, Trustee. June 20th, 1921. 6-22- St. I REPORTS ON DISEASES Measles Leads List of Communicable < Maladies in Stale. Columbia, July 26.?Measles led in pul number of cases in the list of conta- say gious diseases reported from the Ha: counties of the state during June ac- laii cording to figures compiled in the of- res fice of the state health department, to The reports received from over the if i state for June have been filed and Ga] show 106 cases of measles, this being Coi the largest number of cases of any Qui one disease oh the list. pec Both Chester and Chesterfield coun- the ties reported 14 cases of measles; 13 were reported from Orangeburg; 36 ret? in Richland and 27 from Spartan- the burg. Other counties also reported cases of this disease. During June 78 cases of smallpox occurred in the state, according to , her the reports received. Twelve of these , - llGT were reported from Charleston; 12 r r\ v 1 a r An irvzii Vriaiigcuurg y xv iruiii uuiuuco- #< ter; 17 from Greenville. J~ of 1 Forty-nine cases of chickenpox were reported. Of these 19 were re- -n ported from Richland county, 12 cru from Greenwood, four from Chester- ^ field, five from Orangeburg and from Greenville and two from Charleston. r= A total of 60 cases of typhoid oc- A curred over the state in June, accord- H ng to the reports. -Ten were report- B ed from Charleston county, 13 from flj jOrangeburg; eight frojn Richland, ,H two each from Cherokee, Fairfield, H Greenwood and Kershaw; six from H Williamsburg, five from Saluda, and B three from Chester. fig bS Sixty-four cases of diphtheria were K reported. Ten were reported from B j Florence, six eacn irom <jnarieston,j Richland and Sumter; four each from Anderson, Clarendon and Marlboro. Eight cases of pellagra were reported during June. Two of these were from Greenwood county, two from Horry and two from Spartanburg. One was reported from Clarendon and one from Richland. 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