Vital statistics : small-pox and vaccination in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and continental countries and cities, with tables compiled from authentic sources / by Charles T. Pearce.
- Pearce, Charles T. (Charles Thomas)
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Vital statistics : small-pox and vaccination in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and continental countries and cities, with tables compiled from authentic sources / by Charles T. Pearce. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PART I.—LONDON. In the Report of Mr. Simon, then Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board, No. IV., New Series, 1S75, there appeared at page 64 the following passage:— “About twenty years ago (1853) the Epidemiological “ Society of London communicated to the Home Secretary “ [Lord Palmerston] a report* of an extensive inquiry which “ had been made by them into the state of small-pox and vac- cination in England and Wales, and other countries, in which “ they showed that the then average proportionate small-pox “ mortality in England and Wales was considerably more than “ double the small-pox mortality of any of those European “ States in which vaccination was, directly or indirectly, com- “pulsory; and that the mortality in Scotland and Ireland was “much greater even than that in England. This report, which “ was subsequently presented to, and printed by order of “Parliament, supplied the arguments on which the first “ COMPULSORY VACCINATION LAW IN ENGLAND, A LAW WHICH “HAS BEEN SINCE MUCH AMENDED, WAS ENACTED IN 1853.” These are the words of Mr. Simon. That report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 3rd of May, 1853, and by the House of Lords, on the 27th of June, 1853, and immediately followed by an Act of Parliament, which was * Ordered to be printed by the House of Commons, May 3rd, 1853, and by the House of Lords on the 27th June, 1853. B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28063284_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
