Article August 17, 1918 Issue

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with contributions from Emanuel Sternheim, John Oxenham

[Editorial in Hollywood (Cal.) Inquirer]

Considerable opposition has arisen in Hollywood over the occasion of a deputy in the office of the city board of health appearing before the pupils of Hollywood High School a few days ago and stating that the school had been exposed to smallpox, and that all those who had not been vaccinated must either be vaccinated or excluded from school for three weeks.

The health office advised this paper that a pupil of Hollywood. High School lived in an apartment house down town in which a man was found with smallpox. The health officer could not state that the pupil had ever seen the suspected patient, or that he lived in any close proximity to him. As a matter of fact, the pupil had been at the camp at Arcadia for a week. Notwithstanding all these facts, the health department, conceiving this a good opportunity to force the antitoxin crusade, immediately started its campaign.

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