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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    Ueport, 1871—continued. Seaton, Edward Cator, 31.D. (Analysis of his Evidence')—continued. than by the mother, to vaccination, although witness is not prepared to attribute any unworthy motives for such objection, 5640-5646 Statement as to witness having read the woiks of Dr. Nittinger, and other foreign doctors, against vaccination, but without being in any way convinced by their views, 5947-5660. 5723-5725. Independent power of the registrars as to carrying out the Act, irrespectively of the guardians, 5689-5692 Impracticability of house-to-house vaccination in London, •57c9 Rare instances, if any, of parents being obliged to come, a second time to the stations with their children, 5710 Further statement, that considering the intensity of the epidemic, and the immense population, the mortality in London is not heavy, 5711. 5765-5770 Probability of the numerous deaths in the London hospitals being partly owing to the patients being admitted too late, 5712, 5713. Strong opinions of the late Professor Alison as to the value of vaccination, 5717-5722. 5726— —Forcible illustration in Denmatk of the beneficial influence of vaccination, 5727- 5730— Doubt as to the proportion of good and bad vaccinations in London, or of satisfactory and unsatisfactory cicatrices, 5731-5738 Equal protection afforded by good vaccination as by an attack of small-pox, 5739-5741 Power of preventing severely fatal epidemics in London, 5742 Further evidence as to syphilis, or any other disease, not having been proved in any of the Middleton cases, as resulting from vaccination, 5743~5753- 5786, 5787* Reference to certain suggestions bv Dr. Stallard for an amendment of the Act, 5754- 5757 Object of an intended clause in the Act of 1853, excluding unvaccinated children from schools, 5758-5760 Intention, in’1853, to take precautions against unvaccinated children from Scotland and Ireland; it is now those countries that require fo be guarded against England, 5761-5764. Further dissent from the theory that, as small-pox mortality decreases, other mortality rises, by a law of compensation, 5771-5774. 5779-5783 Immense advantage of one central authority in London, in whom should be vested all sanitary matters, 5776-5778 Veiy destructive pestilence in London if there were no vaccination, 5781, 5782 Inspection of the vaccine stations throughout the country about once in two years, more frequent inspection being verv desirable, 5788-5792. Sha dwell. Strong feeling in Shadwell against compulsory vaccination ; steps constantly taken by the people to evade the law, Addison 2446-2454. Sheffield. Considerable difficulty at first in applying the Act in Sheffield ; this has been gradually disappearing, Seaton 5374-5378 Doubt as to the accuracy of a statement that an epidemic of small-pox at Sheffield a few years ago commenced with the soldiers in the barracks, ih. 5588, 5589. Shorncliffie Camp. Nature of the data for a published statement by witness that re- vaccination of the soldiers at Shomcliffe in 1860 had been followed bv several deaths, and in some cases by the amputation of arms in order to save life, Collins 464-471. 586-588. Shortt, Dr. Circumstance of Dr. Short! having as recently as 1867 given conformation to the view of Jenner that cow-pox and grease in the horse were identical, R. B. Gibbs 1 821. Simon, John, F.Ti.S. (Analysis of his Evidence.)—Is medical officer of the Privy Council, 2812 Submits certain papers prepared several years ago relative to the hygienic value of vaccination ; also a section of his last year’s report on the subject, 2815. [Second Examination.]—Long experience of witness as medical officer of health ; he was also in private practice, and was for twenty-three years lecturer on pathology at St. Thomas’s Hospital, 2928-2930 -Reference to the papers prepared by witness some fourteen years ago as showing in great detail the advantages of vaccination, and the groundlessness of the charges made against it, 2931. Belief that in the absence of vaccination small-pox would be the same destructive pestihnee that it was in former times; denial that it is a declining disease, 2932-2936 Equal mortality of unvaccinated persons in the Small Pox Hospital as during any former epidemic before vaccination, 2936, 2937. 2948-2950 Exceedingly small mortality of successfully vaccinated persons in the hospital; total of 7 percent, in the case of all vaccinated patients, 2938-2950. Facility generally of ascertaining in after life, from the marks on the arm, that a person has been successfully vaccinated ; difficulty in ascertaining vaccination is not properly performed, 2941-2946 Very careful inspection by Mr. Marson, of the Small Pox Hospital, in order to asceitain whether there has been previous vaccination of the patients, 2946. Excessive mortality in Holland during the present epidemic there, thus showing that the disease may be as virulent as at any former time, 2951-2953 Practice in Holland not to have early vaccination, 2954-2956 Explanations in connection with a report by Dr. Harvey forcibly illustrating the excessive mortality from small-pox in unprotected cases