Report from the Select Committee on the Vaccination Act (1867) : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Vaccination Act (1867)
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- 1871
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on the Vaccination Act (1867) : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Report, 1871—continued. Marson, James Furness, F.R.C.S. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. Opinion as to the good effect of proper sanitary conditions, 4197, 4198 Infectious as well as contagious character of small-pox ; isolation at an early stage being very desira- ble, 4201,4202. 4212-4217. Circumstance of the nurses at the hospital having never been attacked, they being always re-vaccinated, 4208. 4218, 421 9 Much greater protection by small-pox itself than by vaccination, 4220-4224 Explanation as to one of the hospital nurses having already had the small-pox, she having been previously a patient in the hospital, 4225, 4226. [Second Examination.]—Further statement that witness is not aware of any cases of disease after vaccination, except cases of erysipelas, 4227, 4228. 4257. 4274-4285 Consideration of the question whether syphilis is not iiable to be communicated by the vaccine lymph, or by blood being mixed with the lymph; reluctance of witness to assent to this proposition, there being, however, some apparently well-authenticated cases, 4229- 4256. 4332 Importance of healthy children from whom to obtain lymph, though in any case disease would not be conveyed, 4249-4252. Large amount of defective vaccination in certain parts of England, this not applying to the large towns, 4257-4266 Proper qualifications now required in public vaccina- tors, 4267. 4273 Twofold mode of practising vaccination ; one mode or the other should be compulsory, 4268-4271- Very bad vaccination formerly in the east of England, Wales, &c., this, however, being now remedied, 4271-4273 Greater tendency of small-pox than of vaccination to cause febrile disturbance, or to develope constitutional disease, such as scrofula, 4274-4285. Question further considered as to the amount of protection afforded by vaccination against small-pox in London; great increase of population adverted to hereon, 4286- 4302 Advantage of re-vaccination at puberty in the case only of those who were not properly vaccinated in infancy, 4303, 4304 Further approval generally of the law as it now stands, 4305-4309 Almost entire unanimity of medical men in favour of vac- cination, 4310,4311 Infinitesimal mischief likely to be produced by compulsory vaccination as compared with its great advantages, 4312-4314. 4332 Explanation as to there being a mild form and a severe form of small-pox, vaccination tending to modify ihe disease, 4315-4324. Supply of vaccine obtained by witness by inoculating the cow with the lymph of human small-pox, 4325,4326 Supply also obtained from a cow which had the disease in a natural way, 4325 Error of the view that the horse’s greasy heel had anything to do with vaccine as first produced in the time of Jenner, 4327, 4328 Explanation of a statement by Jenner in regard to erysipelas being an accompaniment of vaccination, 4329 Satisfactory results of the excellent vaccination in Sweden and Norway, 4330, 433 >■ [Third Examination.]—Explanation relative to some cases of corymbose small-pox admitted into the hospital, in which the mortality was very nearly as heavy in the vacci- nated as the unvaccinated cases ; infrequency of this form of the disease, 4623-4627 Further statement as to there being no power of controlling the course of small- pox, scarlatina, and fevers generally, by medical treatment, 4628-4635. 4686 Larger mortality in the hospitals than in private practice, the worst cases being frequently sent to them, 4636 Disadvantage, generally, of the crowding in hospitals 4637. 4693, 4694. Belief that the general mortality of the country is less than it was during the last cen- tury, 4638-4643. 4708, 4709 Inadequacy of the law to prevent epidemics, though it will greatly lessen their ravages, 4644, 4645 Question as to the extent to which vac- cination could have accounted for the absence of an epidemic in London, from 179b to 1825; 4646,4647 Probability of the discontinuance of inoculation having had much to do with the diminution of small-pox in the first quarter of the present century, 4648. Recent change of practice of the Registrar General as to the hospital returns, and the proportionate deaths in vaccinated and unvaccinated cases, 4649-4654 Severity ot the present epidemic notwithstanding compulsory vaccination ; the sad experience ot the Small-pox Hospital proves, however, the great importance of a compulsory law, 4655- 4658 Successful and careful practice of vaccination, by witness ; difficulty in securing equal care throughout the country, 4659-4661 Dissent from certain views of Dr. George Gregory as to the small importance to be attached to the character of the cicatrice on the arm, 4666-4671. Belief as to the impossibility of eliminating from the blood, otherwise than by vac- cination, the susceptibility to the disease, 4672-4680 Further statement as to vaccina- tion preventing or mitigating small-pox, if performed within a certain time after incubation, 4687, 4688 Instances of vaccination and of re-vaccination not taking, there being more failures of the latter than of the former, 4689-4692 Greater efficacy of vac- cination](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24975424_0516.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
