Vaccination and small-pox in England and other countries showing that compulsory re-vaccination is necessary, with an account of the German Vaccination Commission of 1884, and extracts from the reports of the Royal Commission on Vaccination (1889), etc / by Edward J. Edwardes.

  • Edwardes, Edward J. (Edward Joshua)
Date:
1892
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Credit: Vaccination and small-pox in England and other countries showing that compulsory re-vaccination is necessary, with an account of the German Vaccination Commission of 1884, and extracts from the reports of the Royal Commission on Vaccination (1889), etc / by Edward J. Edwardes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sioned loy tlie Local Government Board, or rather by its Medical Officer, to make a searching inquiry on the spot. Dr Barry's report, which reaches to March 31st, 1888, when the epidemic was distinctly declining, has been separately printed; it is also embodied in the report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination. The Special Census of Sheffield Dr Barry began by making a special census of the whole population of Sheffield, in order to know the pro- portion of the vaccinated to the unvaccinated. It was found that the former constituted 98 per cent, of the population—in other words, the inhabitants were found to be nearly all vaccinated persons, only 2 in every 100 being unvaccinated. This small unvaccinated fraction of the community was like a fragment of the whole popula- tion in the last century, as Sir Gr. Buchanan expresses it, and it will be very interesting to learn what proportion of small-pox attacks and deaths it contributed. As the age for public vaccination in England is three months, chil- dren under this age are altogether excluded in the following statistics. A. All Ages Of 268,397 vaccinated persons, 4151 took small-pox and 200, or 1 in 1300, died {i. e. Vh per cent., and O'O? per cent, respectively). Of 5715 not vaccinated, 552 took small-pox and 274 died, or 1 in 20 (i. e. 97 per cent., and 4-8 per cent.). Thus the vaccinated enjoyed a 6-fold immunity from attack and a 68-fold security against death as compared with the unvaccinated. But let us see what the division into age-classes, for the vaccinated and unvaccinated separately, can teach us.