The truth about vaccination : an examination and refutation of the assertions of the anti-vaccinators.

  • Hart, Ernest, 1835-1898.
Date:
1880
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Credit: The truth about vaccination : an examination and refutation of the assertions of the anti-vaccinators. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    APPENDIX G. Table V.—Table showing the Cases and Deaths prom Small- pox in the British Navy Employed on the Home Force for Twenty Years (1859-78). Ratio per 10,000 Year Mean Strength Cases of Deaths of strength flLl'l.ll|MJA Cases Deaths 1859 19,300 51 4 26-4 2-07 1860 23,500 84 12 35-7 510 1861 22,900 35 1 15-3 0-43 1862 20,760 8 1 3-8 0-48 1863 21,570 39 2 18-0 092 1864 19,630 199* 9* 101-3 4-58 1865 20,980 18 0 8-6 000 1866 21,200 29 0 13-7 000 1867 21,600 30 0 13-9 000 1868 23,200 16 0 69 o-oo 1869 22,100 8 0 3-6 o-oo 1870 21,000 24 0 11-4 000 1871 22,100 67 4 30-3 1-81 1872 23,000 62 9 26-9 3-91 1873 22,400 7 0 31 o-oo 1874 22,500 2 0 09 o-oo 1875 21,600 1 0 04 000 1876 20,800 0 0 00 o-oo 1877 21,000 2 0 09 000 1878 19,000 4 0 2-1 000 * This remarkable return, being: so greatly heavier than any other year, needs a word of explanation. No fewer than three-quarters of the cases (151), and two-tbirds of the deaths (6) were from infection at Portsmouth, where the very large number of 228 deaths from small-pox occurred in 1864. Nor was this all. From infection traced to Portsmouth the disease manifested itself on board the Duncan, when on its voyage for the North American station ; 38 men were temporarily disabled by it, and 1 died.