Compulsory vaccination : the establishment of a uniform system of vaccination for all citizens and inhabitants of the state of Louisiana, by legislative enactment / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
[1878?]
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Credit: Compulsory vaccination : the establishment of a uniform system of vaccination for all citizens and inhabitants of the state of Louisiana, by legislative enactment / by Joseph Jones. 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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    The reports for the present year, 1877, up to this moment, Oc- tober 22d, 1877, are still more striking, and justly excite alarm, as foreshadowing still greater ravages by this disease. Cases, Deaths and Recoveries, by Small-pox in 1877, up to 22d, 1877. October Months. January . February March... April May June = - x M C — s. 306 372 502 327 236 190 148 186 236 157 139 103 Xcc 158 186 266 170 97 87 Months. July August September October Total .-& to — - - O £ 02 83 46 13 4 2079 3 M '51 si 33 oq x 56 22 16 10 1073 27 24 0 0 1006 In five years, 1872-1876, inclusive, 4263 cases of smallpox were reported, with 1727 deaths, and 2536 recoveries. If the 2079 cases, 1073 deaths, and 1006 recoveries from small- pox, from the 1st of January, 1877, to the 22d of October, 1877, be added, we have in less than six years 6342 cases, 2803 deaths, and 3539 recoveries, from small-pox in New Orleans. During the same period, yellow fever caused less than one-sixth of the number of deaths, and yet, the whole force of the sanitary legis- lation of the State, and of the acts of the Board of Health, as well as the public attention, as reflected through the secular press, have been directed to the subject of yellow fever. Total Number of Cases of Small-pox and Varioloid which occurred in new orleans, during ten years and Ten Months, about 33,449. Whilst the reports of deaths from small-pox may be accepted as accurate, the number of cases reported was far less than the real number, from the fact that many physicians failed to give full returns, and a large number of cases of varioloid, occurring more especially among the poor whites and negroes, were unat- tended by physicians, and escaped without being reported or disin- fected.