STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1834, sig. 109-5/62 Page 22 · 22 of 29
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1834, sig. 109-5/62
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9/ - 3 - and claimed that vaccination on the basis of the worse vaccine no longer had the value as before. It was alarming to wider populations in Brno that after vaccination against diphtheria in the Brno Children's Hospital of 1500 vaccinated children 40 had festered ulcers. The doctors involved stated that the vaccine was in order. According to an expert opinion on the unusually high number of infections, the cause is probably to be found in the fact that individual vaccines were contaminated. It is not the heavily overloaded two German doctors who carried out the vaccinations or the departmental head of the child's hospital that can be said to be responsible for the infection, but the State Office for Health, which provided the vaccines in question. However, it was not possible to provide proper evidence of this assumption. As far as the information available shows, the competent authorities of the municipal and state administration, in the rural districts the district authorities, were in a proper position to carry out the vaccination operation. Neu-Bizhov) it was reported that the district office had difficulties in recording the immunities responsible for vaccination• While the list of immunization officers was established on time by the Catholic parish office, errors and delays occurred to the district authority in recording those responsible for immunisation and naming those who were held as non-denominational only at the municipal offices. Although in recent years it has been possible to keep abreast of the fact that whispering propagans were used to sabotage vaccinations, especially against diphtheria, and claimed that the serum used for vaccination was harmful to the health of children, it has become clear in this year that the mass of the population was quite positive for protection.