Papers relating to the history and practice of vaccination.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Papers relating to the history and practice of vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Page Remarks on certain alleged eflects of Vaccination. By Dr. West, Physician of the Hospital for Sick Children - - - - - - --139 Notes on the protective value of Vaccination in hot climates. By Edward Cator Seaton, M.D. 140 Notes by Dr. Seaton, on the present small pox mortality of Scotland and Ireland - 143 Experience of the Medical Officers of Certain Schools in which Vaccination is General. 1. In Christ’s Hospital, Hertford. By R. D. J. Evans, M.D. - - - - 147 2. In Marlborough College, Wilts. By Walter Fergus, M.D. - - - - 147 3. In the Welch Charity School, Gray’s Inn Road. By Walter Griffith, Esq., F.R.C.S. - 148 4. In the Orphan Working School, Ilaverstock Hill. By Hetman C. Harris, Esq., F.R.C.S. 149 5. In the London Orphan Asylum. By D. de B. Hovell, Esq., F.R.C.S. - - 151 6. In the Royal Freemasons’ School for Female Children, Wandsworth. By Thomas S. Howell, Esq. - - - - 151 7. In the Infant Orphan Asylum. By R. L. Pinching, Esqi, - - - - 152 8. In Christ’s Hospital, London. By Thomas Stone, Esq., F.R.C.S. - - - 152 K. National and Official Experience of Vaccination : Austria - -- -- - 1. Opinion of the Imperial Society of Surgeons at Vienna ... 2. Report of the Faculty of Medicine at Prague ------ 3. Report of the Imperial General Hospital of Vienna - - - 4. Report of the Imperial Lying-in and Foundling Hospital - - Baden - Bavaria - ----- Denmark - - - - - ... 1. Army Medical Department - - - - 2. Navy Medical Department - 3. National Vaccine Establishment - - - - - - 4. Memorial presented in 1855 to Sir Benjamin Hall, then President of the Board of Health, by the President and Council of the Epidemiological Society, on a proper .State provision for the prevention of small-pox and the extension of Vaccination - France --------- Portugal - - - ----- Prussia - - - - - ..... Russia ------ Sweden and Norway - - - Wirtemberg --------- 154 154 158 163 165 167 169 170 176 176 176 177 182 183 183 184 184 187 Diagrams. 1. Small-pox Death-rates for the kingdom of Sweden, for the 107 years, 1749-1855 - to face page xxii 2. Deaths by Small-pox distributed according to the proportion per 1000 in which they occurred at different ages of life in Geneva, betore the discovery of Vaccination, and in England, London, and Paris, at periods subsequent to the general practice of Vaccination - ----- to face page xxx 3. Deaths by small-pox measles, scarlet fever, and hooping-cough (England, 1847) distributed (in proportion to a thousand deaths by each) according to the years of life at which they severally occurred - - - - to face page xxxi 4. Proportionate distribution by age of 1000 deaths in London by hooping-cough, measles, and scarlet fever, respectively, in the years 1848-54 - - to face page xxxii