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Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 17:44:10 -0400

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<b>An Ounce Of Prevention</b><p>
The first vaccination legislation for American Indians was passed on this date in 1832, more than 19 years after the first national vaccination legislation had been passed. The goal of this act was to provide the means of extending the benefits of vaccination, as a preventive of the smallpox, to the Indian tribes, and thereby, as far as possible, to save them from the destructive ranges of that disease. The federal government set aside ,000 to carry out the provisions of the act. </p>
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