Report to the Commission of Dr. Sidney Coupland, on the outbreak of small-pox in the city of Gloucester in 1895-96.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Vaccination.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Report to the Commission of Dr. Sidney Coupland, on the outbreak of small-pox in the city of Gloucester in 1895-96. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPEND,IX IX. As to cases in which death or non-fatal injury was alleged or suggested to have been caused by, or otherwise connected with, Vaccination. CONTENTS. Page |l.—An analysis, prepared for the Commission by Dr. Sidney Coupland and Dr. Theodore Dyke Acland, of the exports made by Medical Inspectors of the Local Government Board on two hundred and five cases in which death, occurring on or between the 1st November 1888 and the 30th November 1891, had been alleged or suggested to have been connected with vaccination - 2 II. —Memorandum, prepared by Db. Edward Ballard and forwarded to the Commission by the Local Government Board, on the two hundred and five cases in which death, occurring on or between the 1st november 1888 and the 30th november 1891, had been alleged or suggested to have been connected with vaccination, and which had been reported on by medical | Inspectors of the Local Government Board 75 III. —Reports on inquiries, made on behalf of the Commission, into cases in which DEATH OR NON-FATAL INJURY HAD BEEN ALLEGED OR SUGGESTED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY, OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH, VACCINATION ; WITH OTHER INFORMATION AS TO CERTAIN CASES, BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION'S KNOWLEDGE WITH A VIEW TO THEIR INVESTIGATION, INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF WHICH INQUIRY WAS NOT MADE BY MEDICAL MEN ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSION* - - - - - 211 *Note.—From the 1st June 1889 to the 1st July 1896, the Commission was from time to time informed from various sources of cases in which death or non-fatal injury had been alleged or suggested to have been caused by, or otherwise connected with, vaccination, with a view to their investigation ; and, from the 14th February 1891, the Local Government Board immediately informed the Commission of all such cases brought to the Board's notice. In March 1892 the Home Office addressed a circular letter to Coroners throughout England and Wales requesting that, in all cases where they received information that the death of any person, on whose body they proposed to hold an inquest, had been alleged to have been caused by, or to have had any connexion with, vaccination, they would communicate immediately with the Commission. From all sources 421 cases in which death or non-fatal injury had been alleged or suggested to hare been connected with vaccination was brought to the Commission's notice, with a view to their investigation, from the 1st June 1889 to the 1st July 1896, exclusive of cases referred to by witnesses in evidence given before the Commission where such cases were not, otherwise than by the examination of witnesses, made the subject of inquiry by the Commission. These 421 cases, however, include 19 groups of connected cases, each such group being throughout this note counted as one case only. The cases were numbered in the order of the dates of the communicatioijs first informing the Commission of their occurrence; the 19 groups of connected cases being numbered each as one case, but distinguished by the word Series following the number. Among the 421 cases were 45, the subject of reports by Medical Inspectors of the Local Government Board included among the two hundred and five analysed for the Commission by Dr. Coupland and Dr. Acland. Of the 421 cases, 262 were brought to the Commission's notice during the period from the 1st June 1889 to the 31st July 1893, and 159 during the period from the 1st August 1893 to the 1st July 1896. (A.) Of the 262 cases brought to the Commission's notice during the period, of four years and two months, from the 1st June 1889 to the 31st July 1893 :— 175 are the subject of reports, here given, by medical men appointed by the Commission to make inquiry into them. (In one of these 175 cases (Case 259), however, such report only states the inability of the reporter to obtain any material information.) 59 others are the subject of reports by Medical Inspectors of the Local Government Board. (The reports in 41 of these 59 cases are among the two hundred and five analysed by Dr. Coupland and Dr. Acland, and in the other 18 cases abstracts of them are here given.) In 22 others the Commission obtained the information here given, and instituted no further inquiry. And in the remaining 6 cases (Cases 3, 136, 210. 226, 254, and 256j, the nature of the allegation or suggestion in the opinion of the Commission rendered it unnecessary to make any inquiry. (B.) Of the 159 cases brought to the Commission's notice during the period, of two years and eleven months, from the 1st August 1893 to the 31st July 1896, 11 are the subject of reports, here given, by medical men appointed by the Commission to make inquiry into them. O 94060. Wt. 4309.