A review of certain present aspects of smallpox prevention in relation particularly to the Vaccination Acts, 1867-1907.

Date:
1931
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Credit: A review of certain present aspects of smallpox prevention in relation particularly to the Vaccination Acts, 1867-1907. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the efficacy of the concurrent measures of notification, isolation and tracing of contacts. Jf variola major is alone in question, it could be maintained that the English methods, if vigorously and effectively pursued, produce no worse result in regard to prevalence of smallpox than the German reliance on general protection. Even the latter has not always prevented the spread of smallpox in excep- tional circumstances, for example, during the post-war years. This will be seen from the table of deaths below. Subject to the above important reservations, it is interesting to note that in the period covered by the annexed table Germany with a population half as large again as England and Wales has suffered little more than half the mortality from smallpox that we have had. TABLE III. DEATHS FROM SMALLPOX IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN GERMANY, 1900-1929. Year. England and Wales. Germany. 1900 85 49 1901 356 52 1902 2,464 12 1903 manu 18 1904 507 25 1905 116 : yy, 1906 21 47 1907 10 63 1908 i: 65 1909 21 23 1910 19 34. 1911 23 37 1912 9 35 1913 10 12 1914 4 19 1915 13 20 1916 18 91 1917 3 448 1918 2 60 1919 28 704 1920 30 332 1921 5 109 1922 27 26 1923 7 10 1924 13 6 1925 9 9 1926 18 0 1927 47 1 1928 / 53 0 0 1929 39