On the mortality of the small-pox. With a comparative statement of the effects of variolous and vaccine inoculation / [Anon].

  • Royal Jennerian Society.
Date:
[1806?]
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Credit: On the mortality of the small-pox. With a comparative statement of the effects of variolous and vaccine inoculation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is calculated that one in fourteen is the proportion in France between the total number of deaths and those by the small-pox. (Ibid. 700.)—According to Dr. Colon, from sixty to seventy thousand fall annually by the dis¬ ease. (Ibid. 928.)—So lately as the year 1799, fifteen thousand perished in Paris alone, (ibid. 929); and Dr. Moreau says, that, in one particular year, no less than twenty thousand died of it. (Ibid. 785.) By a report of the Central Committee at Paris, made Nov. 24, 1802, it appears that, in the four succeeding months, out of five thousand four hundred and sixty-three who died, one thousand four hundred and seventeen, or upwards of one-fourth) died by the small-pox; and that, in those parts of the city where it principally raged, no fewer than nine hundred and twenty-three deaths out of two thousand six hundred and eighty-one, or above oney third, were occasioned by it. In Rome, six thousand persons perished by the small¬ pox in six months. (Ring, 931.)—In Naples, sixteen thousand in one year, (ibid. 785); and eight thousand died at Palermo, in Sicily, the year only before Dr. Marshal visited it. (Report, 66.) The mortality occasioned by the natural small-pox in India has been immense; it has been said no less than one out of three die of it. The Bramins who practice inoculation aver, that they do not lose above one in two hundred by inoculation; but there are, abundant reasons for disbelieving this interested statement. It seems that the inoculated small-pox is more severely felt, in India, amongst children born there of European parents, than in Europe, since it is fatal to one in sixty or seventy; and the terror and anxiety felt, during the months in which, the disease prevails, are inexpressible. (Shoolbred’s Re*? port of the Progress of Vaccination in Bengal, p. 19.) a 3