Sanitation, not vaccination, the true protection against small-pox : a paper read before the second International Anti-Vaccination Congress at Cologne, October 12th 1881, (with appendix) / by William Tebb.

  • Tebb, William, 1830-1918.
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[1882]
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Credit: Sanitation, not vaccination, the true protection against small-pox : a paper read before the second International Anti-Vaccination Congress at Cologne, October 12th 1881, (with appendix) / by William Tebb. 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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    REALITY versus DR. CARPENTER'S ROMANCE. CHINESE IMMUNITY FROM DISEASE. Important testimony has been borne to the effects of residence among the Chinese, by the medical officer of the State Board of Health of San Francisco, which was laid before the Congress. He states that, he never knew any disease or pestilence originating or spreading in the Chinese quarter. He admits that they live quite close, and attributes their healthy condition and immunity from disease to their frugal life. They eat, he says, only what is necessary to live upon. They eat to live, and do not live to eat. They are clean in their habits, and they drink no whisky. I have never seen a drunken Chinaman in my life. They consequently obtain a better resisting-power to the attack of disease. They constantly wash themselves, and keep themselves and their clothes clean. The death rate is greater among the whites than among the Chinese; greater with adult white people than with adult Chinamen. There have been no epidemics among them; and there has been less small-pox among them than among the whites, the ratio of population being allowed.—Pall Mall Gasette, May 1st, 1882.