il smallpox is stamped out throughout the world so that exposure
of the disease shall be practically impossible, the only personal safety
is in such perfect vaccination that one need not fear an exposure to
smallpox through the recklessness of the foolish.

Make a record of your Vaccination.--Do not fail to procure and preserve
the certificate mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and also to make a
personal record of the facts with regard to any vaccination of yourself or
in your family. From it you may sometime learn that it is ten years since
you or some member of your family was vaccinated, when you thought it only
five.

Lives saved from smallpox in Michigan.--Since the State Board of Health
was established, many thousands of people in Michigan have been vaccinated
because of its recommendations; and the statistics of deaths, published by
the Secretary of State, show that at the close of the year 1906, the death
rate from smallpox in Michigan had been so much less than before the board
was established as to indicate that over three thousand lives had been
saved from that loathsome disease. The average death rate per year, for
the five years, 1869-1873, before the board was established, was 8.5 per
100,000 inhabitants, and since the board was established, for the
thirty-three years, 1874-1907, it was only 1.5. Since 1896 an uncommon
mild type of the disease has prevailed very extensively, but the death
rate has been exceedingly low, being for the eleven years, 1897-1907,
slightly less than one death for each 100,000 inhabitants. The great
saving of life from smallpox in civilized countries has been mainly
because of vaccination and revaccination.

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VACCINATION, Symptoms.--At first a slight irritation at the place of
vaccination. The eruption appears on the third or fourth day as a reddish
pimple surrounded by a reddened surface. On the fifth or sixth day this
pimple becomes a vesicle with a depressed center and filled with clear
contents. It reaches its greatest size on the eighth day. By the tenth day
the contents are pus-like and the surrounding skin is more inflamed and
often quite painful. These symptoms diminish, and by the end of the second
week the pustule has dried to a brownish scab, which falls off between the
twenty-first and twenty-fifth days, and leaves a depressed scar. Fever and
mild constitutional symptoms usually go with the eruption and may last
until about the eighth day