Third (-Fourth-Fifth) Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination; with minutes of evidence and appendices.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Vaccination.

Date:: 1890-1893

Credit: Third (-Fourth-Fifth) Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination; with minutes of evidence and appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$PREUSSEN, S.S.: The outbreak of small-pox on board the b.b. Preussen, while on a voyage to Australia in 1886-7, 8821-8 ; 9920-4 PRIVT COUNCIL: Memorandum, quoted by Mr. W. Tebb, of the Privy Council of tha 6th January 1871 with reference to statements imputing general ill-consequences to the practice of vaccination, 10,323. PROSECUTIONS UNDER THE VACCINATION ACTS : The discontinuance of prosecutions under the Vac- cination Acts in the Halifax Union, 6921-5, 6930-1, 6945-55, 6959-61. Evidence of Mr. John Henry Matthews as to his pro- secutions under the Acts before the Enfield Justices, 6963-7034, and as to a distress warrant issued against him ill consequence of the non-payment of a fine, 6991 -3, 7005-11. Evidence of Mr. E. J. Lane, the broker employed to recover by distress fines levied in the Enfield police court, as to the distress warrant issued against Mr. J. H. Matthews, 9408-51; copy of letter from Mr. Lane to the Clerk to the Enfield Justices on the same subject, App. 178. Letter from the Clerk to the Enfield Justices with reference to the evidence of Mr. J. H. Matthews, App. 178. Particulars of the prosecutions of other witnesses who have been repeatedly proceeded agafnst under the Vac- cination Acts, 7756. 7760-5 ; 9457-60, 9463. The Defence Fund, established in 1885 by the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vac- cination, to enable persons prosecuted under the Vacci- nation Acts to meet their fines and costs, 10,282-97. Mr. W. Tebb's opinion as to the inequality in the operation of the Vaccination Acts, 10,320. PROUST, M.: Translation of the report of MM. Brouardel, Pasteur, and Proust upon certain accidents occurring after a series of vaccinations performed at Asprieres (Aveyron, France) in March 1885, Aiap. 210-6. Precis of this report read by Mr. W. Tebb, 9838-44. PRUSSIA: Small-pox mortality in Prussia during the years 1817-75, 7134-6, 7147-9, 7151-8, 7287, 7453, 9589-608, 9655, App. facing page 180 (Diagram E.). The vaccination laws of Prussia, and of the German Empu-e, 7136-45, 9702-6. Small-pox mortality and vaccination in the German and in the Austrian armies, 9589-608, 9645-7, 9655, 9710-11. Dr. Wallace on the statistics of small-pox mortality in the German and French armies during the war of 1870-1, 9654. The outbreak of impetigo contagiosa following cer- tain vaccinations performed in the island of Riigen, in June 1885, 9797-835. As to a similar outbreak at Elberfeld in 1887, 9803, 9967-8, 9971, 10,176-91. Prussia: sixty years of small-pox, App. facing page 179 (Diagram E.). QUARANTINE {see ISOLATION ). RE-VACCINATION: Dr. Wallace's opinion as to the immunity of re-vac- cinated hospital nurses from contracting small-pox, 7589-92, 9638-44, 9673-9, 9727-32; and Mr. Wheeler's, 8750-804, 9011-3, 9072, 9134-6, 9138-44, 9146-64, 9194-8. Mr. Frank Thorpe Porter's statement as to the re-vaccination or otherwise of the attendants em- ployed at the South Dublin Union hospital-sheds during the small-pox epidemic of 1871, 9148-54. Nurses at the London Small-pox Hospital at Highgate protected in Dr. Cofy's opinion by re-vaccination with the lymph now in use at the Animal Vaccine Lymph Station (Lamb's Conduit Street), 8884-7, 8926-9. As to cases of small-pox after re-vaccination, 9134-9, 9144-5, 9202-6. Mr. W. Tebb on the reason of the abrogation of the regulation enforcing re-vaccination in the Swiss army, 9468. The general absence of re-vaccination in Western Australia, 9876, 9931-2. [And see Vaccination.'} RICORD, M.: M. Ricord's opinion with reference to vaccination and vaccino-syiDhilis, quoted by Mr. W. Tebb, 10,241-7, 10,250-2. RUGEN: The outbreak of impetigo contagiosa following cer- tain vaccinations performed in the island of Riigen, North Germany, in June 1885, 9797-835. SANITATION: The efiect of sanitation on small-pox and its mortality, in Dr. Wallace's opinion, 7388-417,7431, 7462-4, 9565-6, 9575-8, 9655; and in Mr. Wheeler's, 8078-9, 8270-6, 8849, 9004-6, 9070. SCOTLAND: Small-pox mortality and vaccination in Scotland during the years 1855-80, 7122-5, 7365, 7556-8, 9699, App. facing page 179 (Diagram B.); small-pox mor- tality in the large towns, the rural districts and the islands of Scotland respectively, 7125-31, App. facing page 179 (Diagram C). Small-pox m Scotland during the years 1855-80, App. facing page 179 (Diagram B.). Small-pox in Scotland during the years 1855-64 in town and country, App. facing page 179 (Diagram C). SEATON, Dk. : Dr. Seaton's report On the recent epidemic of Small-pox in the United Kingdom in its relation to Vaccination and the Vaccination laws (1874), re- ferred to, 9552-4, 9702-4. Dr. Seaton's Handbook of Vaccination, referred to, 8406, 8457; 8889, 8894; 10,323. Dr. Seaton's opinion as to the stock of lymph raised in India from cattle a0ected with the gotes or mliata, 8889-94, SHEFFIELD: Dr. P. W. Barry's report on the Sheffield small-pos epidemic of 1887-8, referred to by Dr. A. R. Wallace, 7418-23; and by Mr. A. Wheeler, 8191(X, 8447-66, 8473 -8, 8482, 8503-5, 8507, 8539-41, 8551, 8676, 8719-49, 8771, 8776, 8809, 8829, 8835-6, 9038-40. Table showing, for the period 1881-7, the deaths from small-pox and from typhus, simple, and enteric fevers, at all ages in several towns, App. 208 (Table U.). SIMON, SiE JOHN, KC.B.: Sir John Simon's Papers relating to the History and Practice of Vaccination (1857), referred to by Mr. W. Tebb, 9980-90, and the replies there given of medical men to his questions as to vaccination and its eflects, 9980-3, 10,145, 10,148-9. SMALL-POX: Dr. A. R. Wallace on the fatality, or proportion of deaths to cases, of small-pox before the introduction of vaccination as compared with the fatality at the pre- sent time, 7042-69, 7278, 7284, 7366-9, 7577-88, 7610-9, 7732, 9655 ; and Mr. A. Wheeler, 8060-5, 8130-1, 8137- 48, 8278-333, 8336-407, 8422-9, 8435-56, 8608, 8828-58, 8999-9000, 9006, 9049-57, App. 201 (Table J.), App. 201-3 (Table K.), App. 204 (Tables L. and M.). As to comparisons made between statistics of the fatality' of patients treated in small-pox hospitals and those of the fatality of persons suffering from the same disease in towns generally. 7056-7, 7578-86 ; 8316-25, 8329-32, 8356-7, 8383, 8389^05, 8444-56, 8834-41, 8844, 8852-8. Dr. A. R. Wallace on the fatality amongst vacci- nated and unvaccinated in modern small-pox hos- pitals, 7041-2, 7060-8, 7570-7, 7732, 9665; and Mr. A. Wheeler, 8406, 8431-557, 8672-745, 8821-5, 8829-31, 9015-7, App. 204 (Table L.), App. 205 (Tables N., 0., and P.), App. 206 (Table Q.), App. 207 (Table R.). Dr. Wallace's opinion as to the classes from which the vac- cinated and unvaccinated patients in small-pox hospitals are drawn, 7065-8, 7366-8,7421-2,7570-6, 9666; and Mr. Wheeler's, 8468-87, 8495-6, 8502-4, 8507, 8675-8, 8713- 34, 8821-5. Dr. Korosi's statistics comparing the pro- portion of vaccinated and unvaccinated amongst small- pox patients with the proportion amongst patients suffering from other diseases, referred to, 8470-2, 8479- 82. The possible obliteration of the A'accination cica- trices in cases of confluent small-pox, 8519-88, 8551-7, 8691, 8708-10; and Mr. A. Wheeler's opinion as to the classifications made of the fatality of patients in small- pox hospitals according to the number and quality of their vaccination cicatrices, 8519-38, 8551-70, 8608, 8691-710. Dr. William Gay ton's analysis of 10,403 small- pox cases, showing the fatality per cent, of attacks of patients classified according to the number and quality of their cicatrices (see Appendix to the Commission's Second Beport, pages 243-5), referred to, 8557, App. 208 (Table S.). The statistics collected by Mr. Marson showing a relation between the death-rate of small-pox patients, and the number of cicatrices borne by them,$