Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg.

  • Schamberg, Jay Frank, 1870-1934.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg. 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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    TABLE 6.—CONTINUED Smallpox Year. Deaths. 1751 998 1752 3,538 1753 774 1754 2,359 1755 1,988 1756 1,608 1757 3,296 1758 1,273 1759 2,596 1760 2,181 Smallpox Year. Deaths. 1777 2,567 1778 1,425 1779 2,493 1780 871 1771-80 20,923 1751-60 20,611 1761 1,525 1762 2,743 1763 3,582 1764 2,382 1765 2,498 1766 2,334 1767 2,188 1768 3,028 1769 1,968 1770 1,986 1781 3,500 1782 636 1783 1,550 1784 1,759 1785 1,999 1786 1,210 1787 2,418 1788 1,101 1789 2,077 1790 1.617 1781-90 17,867 1761-70 24,234 1771 1,660 1772 3,992 1773 1,039 1774 2,479 1775 2,669 1776 1,728 1791 1,747 1792 1,568 1793 2,382 1794 1,913 1795 1.040 1796 3,548 1797 522 1798 2,237 1799 1,111 1800§ 2,409 1791-1800 18,477 * The records of smallpox deaths from 1636 to 1647 have been lost, but it is known that in 1641 an extensive epidemic of the disease prevailed. t Population within the Bills of Mortality estimated to be in 1685, 530,000. J Population in 1750 estimated to be 653,900. § Population of London, determined by census, in 1801 was 746,233. TABLE 7.- Prussian Army -DEATHS PER 10.000 MEN • Cause. Smallpox »•» Dysentery J-->s Typhoid lis.8 French Garrison of Langres Cause. Smallpox 222.6 Dysentery 19.3 Typhoid 80.6 •Table taken'from Lotz : Pocken und Vaccination, Basel. 1880; presented in evidence before the Royal Commission on Vaccination. only within comparatively recent years. Again the im- provement in sanitation and mode of living has only caused a reduction of the general death-rate of the coun- try (England) of 9 per cent. The lack of parallelism between the incidence and mortality of smallpox and of other diseases due to bad sanitation is illustrated in the comparison of the Prus- sian and French troops in the Franco-Prussian war con- tained in Table 7.