Speech #510217579

From year to year since then there have been appropriations for this purpose. generally. I think. averaging from $100.000 to $150.000. and. as the Senator from New Hampshire states. there have been unexpended balances every year. or almost every year. since these appropriations have been made. I would say to my friend from Maryiand and to the Senate that there is as much propriety and necessity for guarding against the importation into this country of smallpoxthough it is not quite so dangerous or so fatal a disease as cholera or yellow fever or the plague. perhapsand including that disease in the list of diseases that we are to guard against the importation of. as there is in providing against either of the others named. because this country has suffered very seriously from its introduction by immigrants. especially the Western States. Some five or six or eight years ago there was very great suffering from the importation of smallpox by means of immigration to the Western States. It is certainly a disease that we ought to guard against by every method that we safely and properly can.