Third (-Fourth-Fifth) Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination; with minutes of evidence and appendices.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Vaccination.
Date:
1890-1893
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    vacciuations performed since 1849, and the Guar- dians' opinion that the law of compulsory vaccina- tion could not be enforced iu Leicester, 1:3,290-361, App. 413-4 (Tables A, B, and C) ; and as to the num- bers given in the G-uardiaus' returns as the success- ful vaccinations, public and private, for the years (iealt with, 13,362-84.] (Is a member of the Town Council of the Borough of Leicester, and was from 1883 to 1889 a member of the Board of Guardians of the Leicester Union, 13,296- 300; and) is a plumber and sanitary engineer at Leicester, 13,586; and a memljer of the Board of Guardians of the Bar row-on-Soar Union, 17,852. Witness's attention first dii'ected to the sub- ject of vaccination by the passing of the Yaocination Act of 1867, and the imprisonment, in default of pay- ment of fines imposed under that Act, of his partner, 13,588, 13,598, 13,607 ; and from his experience of the small-pox epidemic at Leicester in 1872 he became an active opponent of the practice of vaccination, 13,589- 90, 13,597-8, 13,607-9; the opinion he then formed being confirmed by subsequent reading, 13,607-8 ; and he has been fined several times under the Vacci- natiou Acts, 13,599-602, 13,609. Believes that one of his brothers suifered from sore eyes in consequence of vaccination, 13,591-6, 13,609. The practice of in- surance companies doing Vjusiness in Leicester with regard to the granting of policies on the lives of un- vaccinated persons, 13,690-716, 13,758-64, 14,426. The administration of the Vaccination Acts in the Leicester Union, 13,603-5,13,611-8,13,622-77,13,717- 53, 14,426, 16,602, 15,538-61, 15,74«, 16,022, 16,082-3, 16,379-83, App. 415 (Table 1.1. The returns made to the House of Commons of persons imprisoned under the Vaccination Acts, so far as relating to Leicester, 15,640-51, 16,082-3. The feeling in Leicester as re- gards vaccination and its compulsory enfoicement, 13,611-3,13,618,13,628-9,13,632-3, 13,639-65,13,674- 89, 14,426, 15,400, 16,405, 15,421-6, 16,430-1, 15,444- 9, 15,452-3, 15,495-8, 15,538, 16,379-83, 17,866-74; the origin of the opposition now existing there to compulsory vaccination, 13,611-3, 13,639, 14,426. The absence at Leicester, during the period when defaulters under the Vaccination Acts were being prosecuted, of repeated prosecutions in respect of the same children, 13,613, 13,629, 13,642, 13,656-8. Par- ticulars as to cases where parents, on being proceeded against in Leicester under the Vaccination Acts, have stated in defence their belief that the illness or death of members of their families or other persons has been caused by vaccination, 13,717-44, 13,749-53,13,765- 89, 13,824-31, 13,841-4, 15,229-38, 17,276-7 ; imd as to other cases of the like nature, where ihe pai'ents' belief was held to be a reasonable excuse for the non- vaccination of their children in regard to whom the proceedings were taken, 13,743-8, 13,762, 13,765, 15,392, 17,276-7. Cases where, in witness's opinion, illness or death has been caused by vaccination, 13,591-6,13,609, 13,717- 56, 13,766-95, 13,824-50, 14,462-8, 14,308, 14,817-23, 15,176-385, 15,499-501,15,503-38, (17,862-65,17,875): the case of the child Constance May Wood, 13,790-5, 14,808, 15,337-9, 15,5] 0; the cases ef erysipelas fol- lowing vaccination which occurred m 1876 in the Misterton district of the Gainsborough Union, Lin- colnshire, 14,817-23, 15,175-221, 16,304-26, 15,368- 85; the cases of erysipelas following vaccination which occurred in 1882 in Norwich, 15,222-9, 15,262- 90; the case of the child Edith Chalkley, of Derby, in 1882, 15,291-303, 15,327-36. The case of the child Annie Hart, 16,229-32, 16,236, 15,239-61, 17,862-65, 17,875; the case of the child Edward Jarroin, 16,229- 30, 15,233-6, 15,239-69. Witness's table, with his observations thereon, of cases brought to the know- ledge of the Leicester and Coauty Anti-vaccination Society of injuries and deaths alleged by parents, living in Leicester or Leicestershire, to have been caused by vaccination, and of cases of small-pox occurring in vaccinated persons, 15,386-498, 16,613- 21, 16,084-107, 16,885, 16,924, 17,276-7, App. 417 (Table 4). As to alleged cases of vaccino-syphilis, 15,453-91,16,084-107,15,521-38, 17,286-6. Erysipelas in Leicester, 13,796-806, 13,817-23, 13,861-2, 14,426- 52, 14,760-06, App. 416 (Table 2), and the question of its connexion wich the practice of vaccination, 13.861-2, 14.438-51, 14.760-96, 15,347-64. AVitness's opinion tliat va,cciniition is in children an exciting cause of diarrhoea, 13.851-60, 13,863-86, 14,45;5, 16,935, 16,954-8, 16,979-82, 16,988-9, 17,039-42, 17,070-4-, 17,108-12, 17,126, 17,148-50, 17,185-203, 17,214, 17,216-7, 17,249-53, 17,290-4. The deaths returned by the B-egiwtrar-General as from erysipelas after vaccination or from cow-pox and other effects of vaccination, 13,754-6, 14,796-809, 15,330, 15,340, ].^,,845_fi (i^jjo), 17,27i»-2, 17,662, A|.p. 416 (Table 3). Witness's opinion that in the case of deaths occurring after vacoination it is not always the prac- tice of the medical men certifying the deaths to mention vaccination on their certificates, 13 776 13,779, 13,790-4., 13,831-50, 13,883-4, 14,453-80 14,774-6, 14,808-22, 15,l99-2ol, J5,222-7, 15,246-54, 15,340-4, 15,356-66, 15,499, 15,538; and that accord- ingly the deaths returned by the Kogifstrar-General as from the effects of vaccination are very largely exceeded in number by the actual deaths, 15,340-2 15,345-6 (13,770), 15,368-85. Witness's opinion that public vaccinators do not as a rule carry out in full the instructions of the Local Government Board 13,795, 13,807-16, 14,817, 14,821-3, 15,177-9, 15,218. 15,270-6, 16,290, 16,329. Witness's diagram, with his observations thereon, show- ing for the Borough of Leicester for each of the years 1838-89 the estimated population and the number of marriages, of births, and of deaths from all causes, from small-pox and from all zymotic diseases, with for each of the years 1849-89 thenumber of registered vaccinations, public and private, 15,553-720, 15,726-8, 15,742, 16,747, 15,993-16,082, 16,107-8, 16,113-9 16,176-83, 16,193, 16,200-2, 16,689-759, 16,763, 16,812-22, 16,843, 17,007-9, 17,029-38, 17,230-3, 17,265-6, 17,364-418, 17,449-53, r7,6ii0-9, 17,836-7, 17,839-40, App. facing page 434 (Diagram A). The figures given on this diagram, so iar as i-elating to the numbei- of vaccinations, obtained by witness from Mr. L. P. Chamberlain, the clerk to the Guar- dians of the Leicester Union, 15,578-80, 16,585, 15,602, 15,612, 15,621-8, 15,634-9, 15,647-9, 15,666- 72, 16,011, 16,065. As to the materials from which these figures were obtained and the methods by which they were arrived at, and as to how far the figures given are comparable throughout the years dealt with on the diagram, (13,362-84, 13,620-1), 15,581- 699, 15,700-3, 15,706-7, 15,726-8, 15,993-16,082, 16,107-8, 16,179-83, 16,200-2, 16,689-759, 17,1)07-9, 17,029-38, 17,230-3, 17,255-6, 17,364-418, 17,449-53, 17,620-9, 17,836-7, 17,839-40. Witness's table calcu- lated from the figures given at the foot of his Dia- gram A. showing for the Borough of Leicester during ohe years 1849-1889 in quinquennial periods the average annual per-contage of primary vaccinations to births and the average annual rate of such vacci- nations to five thousand births and to one hundred thousand and to two hundred and fifty thousand popu- lation, his similar table calculated upon the number of actual primary vacciuations registered within each year irrespective of the year of birth of the children vaccinated, and his diagram illustrating the two tables, 17,364-418, 17,448-53, 17,839, App. 444 (Tables 25 and 26), App. facing page 444 (Diagram L.); wit- ness's table showing tor the Borough of Leicester for each of the years 1849-89 the total number of regis- tered vaccinations, the per-centage of such vacciua- tions to the births registered in each of the same years and the rate to live thousand births and to one hundred thousand population, with an estimate of the number of public and private vaccinations per- formed in each year, (17,620-9, 17,836-8), 17,839-40, App. 465 (Table 61). Witness's tables and diagrams, with liis observations thereon, showing for the Borough of Leicester: for each of the years 1838-89, the small-pox death- rate per million living, 15,720-53, 16,109-51, 16,784, 17,045, App. 434 (Table 5), App. facing page 434 (Diagram B.); for each of the years 1849-89, the number of registered vaccinations to each five thou- sand births, 15,722-53,16,109-51, 16,193, 17,315, App. 434 (Tal)le 6), Apji. facing page 434 (Diagram B.); for each of the years 1849-89, the number of regi- stered vaccinations per hundred thousand of the population, 15,726-53, 16,109-51, 16,193, 17,315, App. 434 (Table 7),. App. facing page 434 (Diagram B.); and for the highest years of epidemics during a period of fifty-two years (1838-89), the small-pox death-rate per .million living, the average annual registered vaccinations to every five thousand births, and the accumulated vaccinations per hundred thousand ]i^'illg for che five years ending witli, and including, each epidemic year, 16,152-200, 16,527-8, 16,911-24, 17,840-52, App. 434 (Table 8), App. facing page 434 (Diagram C.j.