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. Simon John, F.R.S. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. cases in India, as compared with the small mortality in protected cases, as in the army, 2958-2970 Limited extent to which sanitary conditions affect the prevalence of small- pox, 2961-2964. Result of most careful inquiry by witness fourteen years ago that there is no foundation for the statement that the suppression of small-pox led to the development of other disease, 2971 Inaccuracy of Dr. Pearce’s statement that when small-pox is present the general death-rate is low, and when it is absent the death-rate is high, 2972 et scg. Statistics in detail, and explanations in connection therewith, to the effect that there has been a great decrease in the proportion of deaths from small-pox since the last century, and a marked decrease in the same period from diseases generally, 2973-2982. 2988-299.5. Evidence as to the fallacy of measuring the whole mortality of England and Wales with reference merely to a small-pox epidemic ; numerous disturbing causes, local and general, which should enter into consideration, 2976. 2991-2995. 3000,3001.3004- 3006 Belief that the duration of life has increased since the last century, 2977-2979 Proposition for the filling up by the Registrar Geneial of a certain form of return, as prepared by witness, in order clearly to establish the relative mortality from small-pox and from other diseases at different periods, 2982-2988. Preparation of some statistics in witness’s office which show that there is no connection whatever between the increase or decrease of small-pox, and the increase or decrease of other diseases, 2988-2996 Large variation in the proportion of children to the general population; necessity of considering this in calculating the infantile death-rate, 2995. 3002- Fallacy of the view that there is a law of compensation which keeps up an average mortality, notwithstanding the increase or decrease of any particular disease, 2997-3001. Less danger from small-pox, owing to the improvement of late years in the practice of public vaccination, 3003, 3004 Comment upon the statement that the Vaccination Act has led to an increase of lung diseases in England and Wales, 3004, 3005 Great variation in the mortality from lung disease in different localities and industries, 3004 Conclusion that the respiratory diseases, including phthisis and influenza, have diminished rather than increased, 3006-3008. [Third Examination.]—Further reference to witness’s Blue Book of 1857, as showing conclusively the great diminution of small-pox mortality in England under the influence of vaccination, 3009 Comparative mortality when there was no vaccination, when there was private vaccination, when there was optional compulsory vaccination, and when there was compulsory vaccination ; immense diminution between the first and last of these periods, 30C9-3011 Additional measures since the Act of 1867, for securing vaccina- tion compulsorily ; the effect of the Act cannot yet be shown, 3012-3015. Tremendous mortality from small-pox in London at different periods anterior to innoculation, 3016-3021 Cessation since vaccination of the pestilential character of the epidemic, 3022, 3023 Consideration of the statistics of small-pox mortality in Ireland, and the gradual decrease for several years past; probability of a rise in the deaths ere long, 3024-3030. Statement showing the inaccuracy of some evidence of Dr. Pearce in regard to a nurse at Stockwell Small-pox Hospital having been attacked with the disease after re-vaccination, 3031-3040 Belief that for an overwhelming majority of persons proper vaccination in infancy is a security for life against small-pox, 3041. 3059-3063. 3164, 3165 Opinion, however, that all persons, as a general rule, should be re- vaccinated at puberty; explanation as to the reasons for this advice, 3041. 3060-3063. 3164. 3'77-3i9]- Exceptions taken to the calculation of Mr. G. S. Gibbs that the British army suffers the same death-rate from small-pox as the general population ; very different results shown by witness, 3042 Difficulty in treating small-pox in the navy; salutary pro- tection affotded, however, by vaccination, 3042, 3043 Forcible illustration in the case of the “Qetavia” of the benefit of vaccination and of the evil of non-vaccination, 3042 Uniform vaccination in the army on enlistment, 3044—■—Forcible illustration at Cardiff in 1857, °f the protection afforded by vaccination, as compared with the liability of those unvaccinated, ih. Conclusive character of the experience of the Small-pox Hospital as to the great value of vaccination, ih. Entire inaccuracy of the calculation that about 50 per cent, of the population of London are unvaccinated ; probable explanation of a reported statement bv Lord Robert Montague to this effect, 3045-3052. 3108-3110. 3113. 3192-3199 Calculation, based upon an examination of school children and of army recruits, that, excluding infants, about 97^ per cent, of the population of London are protected by vaccination or previous small-pox, 3045-3053. 3192-3198—-Enormous population of London adverted to in reference to the deaths from small-pox duting the present epidemic, 3053-3055 Extraordinary virulence of the epidemic, 3055. 3064, 3065. 246. 3 s 3 Strong](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24975424_0537.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
