Dr. F.W. Barry's report to the Local Government Board on a death which was alleged to have been caused by vaccination in the northern district of the Derby union / [Fred. W. Barry].

  • Barry, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1850-1897
Date:
1882
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Credit: Dr. F.W. Barry's report to the Local Government Board on a death which was alleged to have been caused by vaccination in the northern district of the Derby union / [Fred. W. Barry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    visits or treatment. He stated that he treated the child for abscesses in the axilla, neck, and right elbow; that so far as his memory served him, there was no erysipelas when the child was first brought to him, but that he did not make a full and particular examination. He did not consider that the child was suffering from syphilis; he did not see it after 6tli November. The child was clean and well cared for. I may as well state here that the house was in fair sanitary condition, no drain inlets being apparently situated in it, whilst the privy was at a considerable distance from the house. The above imperfect account gives all the information that I was able to obtain with regard to the history of Edith Chalkley’s illness, yet imperfect as it is, the symptoms were apparently those one would expect to find in a case of septic infection, resulting either from an inoculation with active septic material, or with the infective products of inflammation. Taking this hypothesis, the question next arose as to whether, either at the time of vaccination or of inspection, there was any possibility of the transmission or inoculation of such septic material, and to ascertain this I deemed it necessary, firstly to enquire into the history of all the children who had been at the station on the 13th and 20th of September, these being the days on which Edith Chalkley attended. This of course included such cases as had been vaccinated on the 6th, they having attended for inspection on the 13th, and some of them naturally having acted as vaccinifers to the children then operated upon. Secondly I examined minutely into all the circumstances connected with the performance of the operation itself by the public vaccinator, to ascertain whether the untoward results might be traced to any careless or accidental inoculation with septic matter. (A.) The total number of children into whose history I found it necessary to inquire was thirty. Of these, seven were vaccinated on the 6th, 13 on the 13th, and 10 on the 20th. A copy of the public vaccinator’s register with reference to these cases is appended. In the following table is shown the derivation of the lymph supply, as ascertained from the above-noted register, of all the cases vaccinated, on the 13th and 20th September. Table showing lymph derivation of cases vaccinated at Derby on the 13th and 20th September 1882. September 6th. (a.) Harratt (223) <fi.) Randle (224) (c.) Randle (225) (d.) Hook (226) (e ) Watts (227) f) Ogden (228) {'j.) Smedley (229) September 13th. f Bladon (235) - < Sims(236) fBretnor (237) - f Hartle (241) (see text) 1 Brown (242) (see text) r < Swan (238) Parker (239) Chalkley (240) r Baggellay (231) - Smith (230) Sprenthall (232) Folder (233) - Smith (234) September 20th. f Lapworth (251). \ Tarr (252). fWood (243). J Tomlinson (244). ] Southall (245). b Curtis (246). rOllernshaw (247). J Topham (248). | Taylor (249.) b Hales (250). The figures in brackets refer to the numbers in the public vaccinator’s register. 22502881888