Short story headlined “Dr. Starkloff Vexed” was published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Jan. 10, 1900.

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   Roland Klose (rwklose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:06:46 JST Roland Klose

   St. Louis Health Commissioner Max Starkloff, back in 1900, faced anti-vaxxers, including at the Board of Education, which adopted a policy that accepted the word of parents that their kids had been vaccinated against smallpox. “In many instances, we have found that parents deliberately falsified in order to keep their children from being vaccinated,” Starkloff said. “I regret that this system is to be crippled and rendered partially ineffective by the action of the board....” #stlouis #vaccine