is a great danger that the declining prevalence of an epidemic disease may bring about

forgetfulness of the means by which of forgetful- such success has been attained. In one or
two European countries such forgetfulness has led to serious neglect of vaccination, with the
result that in those countries smallpox—at one time controlled—has again caused disastrous
epidemics. To the individual all concern in the subject may seem to terminate with his own
vaccination and perhaps with that of his relatives, but; it is the duty—as it is the right—of all
natives and the India.public in Europeans m.... India to insist on the vaccination ...of
everyone in the community and to oppose strenuously any measure which, being dictated by
either ignorance or parsimony, may tend to lessen the efficiency with which arrangements to
that end are carried out. The matter at issue is no trivial problem in modes of government or
other politics of party or of state, but a problem of choosing between the life or death of
individuals and of races. Let us hope that those in authority in India will continue to regard
this as their guiding principle, lest they and the millions whom they serve may have cause to
remember—too late—how indescribably dreadful a thing is the epidemic prevalence of a
disease which, when uncontrolled, causes the wreck of nations in a manner more ruthless
than the most terrible of wars.