Vaccination a curse and a menace to personal liberty : with statistics showing its dangers and criminality / by J. M. Peebles.

  • James Martin Peebles
Date:
1900
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    To the Editor of The Bulletin. Sir: In a discussion on the reliability 6* vac clnation aa a preventive of small-pox, the asser- tion w»g a.ade that In the three last epidemieV of thi^t'disease In England the mortality was gre^J- «rt la the last one; necessarily since Jenner's d f covery. Please give some statistics on this su 1ect. <In 1837 the British Parliament received an- swers from 542 physicians of all nationalities to questions which were asked them in reference to the utility of vaccination, and only two of ] them spoke against it. Nothing proves this util- i ltv more than the statistics then obtained. Es- i pecially instructive were the figures compiled In an epidemic of small-pox at Chemnitz, Germany, In 1870-71. Its population was 64,225, of whom 53.831 were vaccinated. 5.712 were unvaecin ■ ated. and 4,652 had had the small-pox b Of those vaccinated, 953. or 1.77 per cent, be- came affected with the disease; of the unvac- cinated, 2.643, or 46.3 per ceu:., suffered frxm it. The mortality of the vaccinated was 0/73 per cent.' and of the unprotected 9.16 per Summary of recent statistics indicates that' 1 general cases the danger of infection is six t!im as great and the mortality sixty-eight, times u srreat In the unvacciuated as in the vaccinnti'i', During the Franco-Prussian war there wp.s jj epidemic of small-pox in France; the Frety army, whose vaccination was not carefully c) ried out. lost 23,400 from small-pox; the q man army, where the men had been thorough Inoculated, lost only 450 men.) Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library HISTORICAL LIBRARY Yale University Gift of Dr. Alfred Evans