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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    Report, 1871—continued. Simon, John, F.R.S. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. Circumstance of M. Ricord having changed his views upon the question of the com- munication of syphilis ; witness also has learned much on this subject in the last fourteen years, 3-208, 3209 Conclusion further expressed as to the exceeding infrequency of cases of syphilis through vaccination; small minority of medical men who believe they have met with such cases, 3210-3216 Modified views entertained by Mr. Hopkinson in regard to the conveyance of syphilis by vaccination, 3212. [Fourth Examination.]—Further statement upon the question of the liability to small- pox declining with the efflux of time, 3217-3220 Opinion further expressed as to puberty being the proper time for re-vaccination, 3218-3224 -Possibility of hospital statistics being open to correction by reason of the obliteration of vaccination marks, and by some vaccinated persons being thus set down as unvaccinated, 3227-3232. Further consideration of the probable effect produced upon infant mortality in towns by improved sanitary regulations and by better wages, &c. ; opinion that no appreciable effect is thus produced as regards small-pox, 3233-3238. 3391-3395. 3531, 3532 Great severity of tiie present epidemic as compared with certain former ones, 3238- 3245—-—Much less extensive vaccination under the Act of 1853 than under the Act of 1867; 3246-3251 Probabiliiy of the Act of 1867 having doubled infantile vaccina- tion, 3251. Examination with further reference to the proportion of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons in London as bearing upon the statistics of the Small-pox Hospital and the relative mortality of the two classes of patients therein, 3252-3255. 3342-3345. 3411 — 3425 Authority of Dr. Ballot of Holland cited for the statement that the deaths th ere are among young unvaccinated children, and that vaccination is not practised until children are six or sevm years old, 3256-3266. 3432-3436. Impression as to vaccination being enforced in the Navy, 3267, 3268 Question whether the men on board the ‘‘ Octavia ” who were returned as unvaccinated had not been vaccinated, 3268-3272. 3276-3280 Entire inaccuracy of the inferences drawn by Mr. G. S. Gibbs from certain statistics of small-pox mortality in France, 3273-3275 3404-3410 Better treatment of smail-pox than 150 or 200 years ago, this having- something to do with the decreased mortaliiy, 3281-3286 Definition of “ true vac- cine matter” as the lymph of a characteristic vaccine vedcle, 3387-3389. Result of witness’s inquiry of 1857 1 hat the protective value of vaccination was perfectly made out, 3290, 3291.3325-3327 Explanaiion as to witness’s mode of selection of the medical authorities to whom he addressed inquiries as to the value of vaccination, 3292- 3296. 3304-3306 Inability of witness to state from memory whether he advised Sir Benjamin Flail in 1856 to object to the printing of a certain paper or petition by the House of Commons which emanated from anti-vaccinationists, 3297-3301. 3304- 33°9- Question whether the advocates of vaccination are not under a larger pecuniary interest in the matier than the opponents of the practice, 3310-3314 Ignorance or dishonesty by which some of the anti-vaccination agitators are actuated, 3315 De- fence of penalties for enforcing the law in the case of those who have not common sense enough or are too apathetic to appreciate its great public value, 3316-3324. 3338-3340. 339c. Concurrence in the theory that as small-pox itself is a protection against a second attack, so is vaccination a protection against a first attack, 3325-3330 Belief that the health of those vaccinated is neither injured nor improved by the process, though in some instances there may be a temporary derangement of health, 3331-3336 Prac- ticability of due care in every case so as to avoid vaccination unless the child is in a fit state for the purpose, 3336, 3337. Explanation relative to the apparently large mortality in London during the present epidemic, more especially if measured with reference to the unvaccinated population, 3341'3348- 3359-3366 Fuither admi-sion as to the communication of syphilis by vaccination, witness contending, however, that the cases are extremely rare, 3349-3356. 3369-3380 Dissent from the opinion of Dr. Ricord that the communication of syphilis being once proved, vaccination must cease, 3351-3354 Expediency of the State disregarding the minute danger on the score of syphilis, and enforcing vaccination on account of its great public value, 3357-3358. Entire absence of any data for the assertion that the effect of the present epidemic in London proves any depreciation of the protection of vaccination, 3359-3366 -Opinion that the only protection, shoit of absolute isolation, is by means of vaccination, 3367, 3368 Evidence on the question as to the facility of detecting impurity in lymph, so as to obviate the conveyance of disease; admission as fo there being some diffleuty in the matter, 3369-3382. 3445-3458. 3523——Suggestions for the exercise of increased precautions by vaccinators, so as effectually to guard against the use of syphilis-con- veying lymph; expediency of blood being never allowed to mix with the lymph, 3373— 3382. 3545-3547. 3550-3553 Doubt as to syphilis being communicable by pure lymph from a syphilitic child, 3377-3380.