Article July 24, 1943 Issue

Your recent editorial entitled...

Samuel S. Ball

Jersey Journal

Samuel S. Ball, Committee on Publication for New Jersey
Jersey Journal, Jersey City

Your recent editorial entitled "Christian Science Wins on Vaccination, Chiropody" raises points in which the public is interested and on which more light should be thrown. On the face of it the exemption of Christian Science teachers and pupils from vaccination might seem to be against the public interest. But this is not so.

Exemption of children from vaccination and immunization on religious grounds in no way endangers others. The basis of this statement is the simple but important fact that if, either at the wish of their parents or under compulsion, all the children of a school are vaccinated except a few who are excused on religious grounds, say on a ratio of one thousand to ten, the one thousand will be in no danger from the ten. If vaccination does what is claimed for it, the one thousand will be immune to smallpox; they will be unable to pick it up from the ten and the ten will be unable to communicate it to them. All who undergo vaccination will supposedly be so thoroughly protected from the disease that it will not touch them. How then will the ten children be a source of danger to the one thousand? The answer is that if any risk is involved it will be confined to the ten, and the parents of the one thousand need feel no concern, since their children will not be affected. If the parents of the ten choose not to have their children vaccinated, this is their responsibility and other parents need make no attempt to intervene nor have any fear for the safety of their own children.

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