as related by Annie Riley Hale, in "The Medical Voodoo", 1935, pp 54-55 (book), pp.61-62 (pdf). This book is available on archive.org, but as I have downloaded it, I no longer have the link to hand.
QUOTE: For several years Mr. [Charles] Higgins [American author of "The Horrors of Vaccination Exposed", 1919] carried a paid advertisement in one of the big New York dailies calling on the N. Y. State and City Health Departments to open their books, and he would undertake to prove from their own records—juggled as many of their reports were—that "there had been more deaths from vaccination than from smallpox in New York every year for the past 15 years." His challenge was never accepted.
A striking confirmation of Mr. Higgins' contention on this point was furnished by a survey made of vaccination casualties in the public schools of the rural districts and smaller cities of New York in 1914. This survey was undertaken by Mr. Jas. A. Loyster, editor of a newspaper at Cazenovia, N. Y., who purposely left out of his field of investigation the larger cities, such as Greater New York, Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse, etc., because of the difficulty of obtaining reliable data from these metropolitan centers. Mr. Loyster's interest in the matter grew out of the death of his only son, a sturdy, healthy lad of 11, which occurred as a sequence of vaccination in 23 days from the time of the operation.
Despite this tragic happening, the father says—in the preamble to his report—that he purposely refrained from reading any anti-vaccination literature before beginning his survey of the schools, in order that he might keep a free open mind for facts—and facts only. He had consented to the boy's vaccination, having been vaccinated himself in childhood and survived, and not even the boy's fate had wholly convinced him of the folly of vaccination. But he found as the result of his "painstaking inquiry"—and incorporated in his published Report—that there had been 27 deaths from vaccination, and twice as many cases of serious illness—followed in some instances by permanent disability—in this partial list of N. Y. school children in 1914, while in the whole State of New York for that year there had been but three deaths from smallpox! Not that the death certificates for these 27 victims of vaccination in the Loyster report named vaccination as the immediate cause of death. The guardians of the calf-pus ritual are much too wary for that. The assignable causes of death in these instances were variously distributed among the following diagnoses: infantile paralysis, spinal-meningitis, tetanus and diphtheria—although some of them read "following vaccination." UNQUOTE
There are many elements to this story - a refusal of authorities to release data, the parent of a child injured by vaccine carefully studying the matter and becoming more knowledgeable about vaccination than the authorities, evidence that vaccination caused many other sicknesses to appear in the vaccinated, among others - are achingly familiar, but it looks like none of them are new.
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as related by Annie Riley Hale, in "The Medical Voodoo", 1935, pp 54-55 (book), pp.61-62 (pdf).
This book is available on archive.org, but as I have downloaded it, I no longer have the link to hand.
QUOTE:
For several years Mr. [Charles] Higgins [American author of "The Horrors of Vaccination Exposed", 1919] carried a paid advertisement in one of the big New York dailies calling on the N. Y. State and City Health Departments to open their books, and he would undertake to prove from their own records—juggled as many of their reports were—that "there had been more deaths from vaccination than from smallpox in New York every year for the past 15 years." His challenge was never accepted.
A striking confirmation of Mr. Higgins' contention on this point was furnished by a survey made of vaccination casualties in the public schools of the rural districts and smaller cities of New York in 1914. This survey was undertaken by Mr. Jas. A. Loyster, editor of a newspaper at Cazenovia, N. Y., who purposely left out of his field of investigation the larger cities, such as Greater New York, Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse, etc., because of the difficulty of obtaining reliable data from these metropolitan centers. Mr. Loyster's interest in the matter grew out of the death of his only son, a sturdy, healthy lad of 11, which occurred as a sequence of vaccination in 23 days from the time of the operation.
Despite this tragic happening, the father says—in the preamble to his report—that he purposely refrained from reading any anti-vaccination literature before beginning his survey of the schools, in order that he might keep a free open mind for facts—and facts only. He had consented to the boy's vaccination, having been vaccinated himself in childhood and survived, and not even the boy's fate had wholly convinced him of the folly of vaccination. But he found as the result of his "painstaking inquiry"—and incorporated in his published Report—that there had been 27 deaths from vaccination, and twice as many cases of serious illness—followed in some instances by permanent disability—in this partial list of N. Y. school children in 1914, while in the whole State of New York for that year there had been but three deaths from smallpox! Not that the death certificates for these 27 victims of vaccination in the Loyster report named vaccination as the immediate cause of death. The guardians of the calf-pus ritual are much too wary for that. The assignable causes of death in these instances were variously distributed among the following diagnoses: infantile paralysis, spinal-meningitis, tetanus and diphtheria—although some of them read "following vaccination."
UNQUOTE
There are many elements to this story - a refusal of authorities to release data, the parent of a child injured by vaccine carefully studying the matter and becoming more knowledgeable about vaccination than the authorities, evidence that vaccination caused many other sicknesses to appear in the vaccinated, among others - are achingly familiar, but it looks like none of them are new.