A concise history of small-pox and vaccination in Europe / by Edward J. Edwardes.

  • Edwardes, Edward J. (Edward Joshua)
Date:
1902
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    PREFACE. ' Is Vaccination a Preventive of Small-pox ? To this question there is, there can be, no answer except such as is couched in the language of figures.' Dr. W. A. Guy, F.R.S.S. The object of this work is to supply in a handy form the chief official statistics, and some others relating to vaccination. A short historical account is also given of small-pox, of inoculation, of the introduction of vaccina- tion—the greatest sanitary fact which the world has ever known—and of its progress during a hundred years in various European Countries. I will here mention the Korosi method. Herr Korosi, director of the Budapest Statistical Bureau, procured from medical men exact information as to the vac- cination condition of 14,678 persons who died from various causes, including small-pox, in some Hungarian Hospitals in 1886. It was found that the unvaccinated constituted 14 per cent, of those who died from ' other diseases' than small-pox. If vaccination has no in- fluence on small-pox, then the unvaccinated should have formed also about 14 per cent, of those who died from small-pox. They actually formed 81 per cent. (' Kritik der Vaccinations—Statistik,' Berlin 2nd edition, i88g, and ' Trans. Internat. Med. Congress,' Washington, U.S., 1887, which also contains Korosi's proof of the falsification of the Austrian railway returns). The EngHsh nation is behind the times in the use of