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

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

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$cinations to births, 17,616, 17,6:57, 17,649-53, 17,657- 8^ 17,675-82, 17,703-6, 17,830-2, App. 453 (Table. 37), App. facing page 453 (Diagram N.); for each of the years 1838-89, the registered number of deaths with infants under three months, under six months, and under twelve months of age, and the registered number of births, the birth-rate per thousand living, and the per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 17,658, App. 454 (Table 38); during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the average annual registered number of deaths with the average annual death-rate from all causes per thousand births of infants under three months, under six months, and under twelve months of age, and the average annual registered number of births, the average annual birth-i-ate per thousand living, and the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, (17,616), 17,658-706, 17,830-2, App. 455 (Table 39), App. facing page 453 (Diagram N.); during the years 1838-89, in quinquennial periods, the average number of persons living at all ages, and at certain life-periods, with the registered number of deaths from all causes at each age during each period, 17,708-10, quinquennial periods, the average annual registered number of deaths from all causes at all ages and at certain life-periods with the average annual death- rate per thousand living at each age and the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinatioas to births, 17,710-29, App. 458 (Table 42) ; during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the average number of persons living at all and under and over certain ages with the registered number of deaths from all causes at each ago during each period, 17,729, App. 459 (Table 43); during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the average annual registered number of deaths from nil causes at all and under and over certain ages with the average annual death- rate per thousand living at each age and the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 17,729, 17,748, 17,752, App. 460 (Table 44), App. facing page 460 (Diagram 0.); during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the total number of small-pox deaths at all ages and at certain life- periods, the average annual small-pox death-rate per million living at each age and the relative per- centage of such death-rates with the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, (17,500-12), 17,729-41, 17,74(5-8, (17,755, 17,776-807), App. 461 (Table 45); during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the total number of small-pox deaths at all and nndei- ard over certain ages, the average annual small-pox death-rate per million living at each age and the relative per-centage of such death-rates with the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 17,742-52, App. 462 (Table 46); during the years 1849-89 in quin- quennial periods, the total numlier of deaths from small-pox and from fevers of children under five and over fifteen years of age and of persons at all ages and fifteen years per cent, of the deaths from these diseases at all ages with the average annual per- centage of registered vaccinations to births (17,500-12, 17,740-1), 17,752-807, App. 463 (Table 47) ; during the years 1849-89 in quinquennial periods, the total number of deaths from small-pox and fi'om all causes of children under five and under fifteen years of age and the proportion of the deaths at those ages from small-pox per cent, of the deaths at the same ages from all causes with the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 17,807-9, App. 463 (Table 48) ; and, during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the total number of deaths from all causes of children undei' five and under fifteen years of age and of ]iersons at all ages and the pro- portion of such deaths under five and under fifteen years i)er cent, of those at all ages ^vit\\ the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 17,820-39,'App. 464 (Table 60). IIS^OCULATION: Professor E. M. Crookshank's opinion as to the pre- valence of small-pox inoculation in the eighteenth century and before, 10,330-44 ; the locfilities in which it was practised, 10,332-44, App. facing page 398 (Map) ; its introduction into England, 10,335-43 ; and prohibition by law, 10,343, 12,091, 12,303-4. The 10,432-41, 10,550-83, 10,750-95, 11,140-73, 11,170-6, 11,178-9, 11,241, 11,246, 11,253-62, 11,266-70, 11,273, 11,723, 11,768-9, 11,773-6, 11,839, 11,889, 11.931, 11,941, 11,995-6, 12,112;' 12,283, 12,289-95; Professor Suttonian method, 10,350-6,10,375-44], 10,432-3, 10,570-641, 10,654-75, 10,683, 10,752, 10,764-5, and the usual characteristics of the resulting disease, 10,374-5, 10,411-30, 10,432-8, 10,632-7, 10,642-3, 10,660, 10,663, 10,672, 10,676-81. 10,750-80, 10,795, 12,301. 12,308-12, Ai)p. 398. Professor Crookshank's opinion that the vesicle resulting from the inoculation, itnder certain conditions, of small-pox is pr;i,ctically not distinguishable from that of transmitted cow- pox, 11,504-8, 11,529-30, 11,540, 12,185, 12,247-8, 12,283,12,292,12,295-8,12,355-8, 12,362-3, 12,379-82. Camper's experiments to ascertain whether the number of punctures mads or the qiiantity of variolous matter introduced bore any relation to the number of pustules which afterwards appeared, referred to, 11,889, App. 409. Professor Crookshank's opinion as to the protection afforded by inoculation, li»,465-92, 10,550-69, 10,645-8, 10,780-6, 10,790-4, 11,722-3, 11,993-6, 12,275, 12,289-90, 12,299-302, 12.355-65, effect of the practice on small-pox audits mortalitj, 10,492-549,10,684-737,10,749,11,217. App. 398. Cases given by Baron Dimsdale in The, recent method of inoculating for the small-pox (1779), sbo-wing the minimum result by small-pox inoculation con- sidered by him sufficient to afford protection, A])p. 3>9S. Dr. Haygarth's s^-stem for preventing small- pox referred to by Professor Crooksharuk, 10,739-18, l(.),796-830,10,838-913,10,919-67, 11,006-28. Persons insusceptible of inoculation, 10,787-8, 11,661, 11,664. Professor Crooksha.nk's opinion as to the experiments of inoculating with small-pox persons who had been vaccinated, 11,273, 11,660-703, 11,726-814, 11,823-61, 11,875, 11,954-12,092, 12,101, 12,193, 12,299-312, 12,333-5, 12,359-61; that this test was vitiated in the large majority of cases to which it was applied by bebig tried ou persons who had previously been inoculated with small-pox under the belief that it was cow-pox, 11,273,11,669-703,11,729, 11,735-45,11,748- 77, 11,782-3, 11,786-7, 11,795-814, 11,834-43, 11,875, 11,954-12,091, 12,302, 12,333 ; and that in Jenner's own cases where the test was applied either after vaccination or after casual cow-pox the results were tnireliable, 11,660-7, 11,857, or the test failed, 11,779- 81. Cases where the test T^^as applied after inocula- tion with lymph the source of which in Professor Crookshank's opinion is doubtful, 11,675-80, 11,691- 3, 11,695-6, 11,699-700, 11,726-9, 11,735-45, 11,778- 9, 11,786-7, 11,812, 11,814, 11,826, 11,836-47, 11,875, 12,087-8, 12,090-1, 12,335. Brown's cases, 11,676-7, 11.689- 91, 11,810, 11,852-5, 12,092, 12,157, 12,385; Stevenson's, 11,677. 11,726-8. 11,735-46, App. 409; Marshall's, 11,679-80, 11,826, 11,836-47, 11,975-8, 11,984, 11,987-8,11,991,11,999-12,020, 12,024. 12.028- 9, 12,031-41, 12,045-6, 12,079, 12,081, 12,088, App. 411; 'Willan's, 11,729, 11,784-7, 11,792, 12,090-1. variolous test was applied after inoculation with horse-pox, 11,814, 11,822, 11,864, 12,087, 12,091. and sheep-pox, 11,877-9, 12,174-8, 12,184, 12,188-92._ Professor Crookshank's opinion as to the advisability of inoculating with small-pox the attendants in small- pox hospitals, 12,399. Dr. G. Cordweiit's opinion that inoculation with small- pox would afford absolute security against an attack of that disease, 12,737-44, 12,748-9. Mr. C. H. Hopwood as to the prohibition of small-pox inoculation by law. 12,918-9, 15,983-7. INSUKANCE COMPAXIES: Mr. J. T. Biggs as to the practice of insurance companies doing business in Leicester with regard to the grant- ing of policies on the lives of unvaccinated persons, 13.690- 716, 13,758-64, 14,426. IRONS, Mk. ED'WARD HOLLIS (analysis of his Lives at Melton Mowbray, 14,304. Particulars of the ilhiess of one of witness's children, in his opinion due to vaccination, 14,306, 14,308; since the time of this illness witness has refused to have his other children vaccinated, 14,305-7, and has been repeatedly fined under the Vaccination Acts, 14,307, 14,313-9, 14,322-9, 14,338. Other cases where, in witness's$