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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    Witness's opiuioii tliat vaccinatiou ought not to be compulsorily enforced, 13,205-6, 13,208, 13,256, 13,261, 13,265-81; the general feeling in Leicester as regards vaccination and its compulsory enforcement, 13,241-8. WOOD, Mrs. FANNY (analysis of her evidence) : Lives at New Humberstone, near Leicester, 14,149. Particulars of the illness, occurring after vaccina- tion, and subsequent death of witness's daughter Constance, 14,150-215. [References in the evidence of Mr. J. Leavesley to the case of the child Constance May Wood, 15,025, 15,033-7, 15,044-6, 15,050-4; references in the evi- dence of Mr. J. T. Biggs, 13,790-5, 14,808, 15,8;!7-9, 15,510. Dr. E. Ballard's report to the Local Government Board on an inquiry into this case (4th December 1888), Ajjp. 489.] WOODVILLE : Professor B. M. Crookshauk as to the sjDurces of Woodville's and Pearson's lymph, 11,178, 11,182, 11,185-6, 11,679,11,748, 11,750-6, 11,829-33, 12,044; and his opinion that Jenner's own stock of lymph was lost in 1798, 11,178, 11,185, 11,679-80, 11,747-8, 11,764, 11,783, 11,795-809, 11,823-8, 11,846-7, 11,954- 12,044: that lymph was then circulated by Woodville and Pearson which became the current lymph in England and on the continent, 11,178, 11,185-90, 11,201-2,11,204, 11,667-9,11,673,11,677-80,11,689-96, 11,698-9,11,735-45, 11,747-56, 11,764, 11,779, 11,782- 3, 11,795-811, 11,823-33. 11,836, 31,846-7, 11,954- 12,044, 12,091; and his belief that the lymph thus circulated was, in fact, that of small-pox and not of cow-pox, 11,178-89, 11,192-208, 11,228-83, 11,502, 11,669-74, 11,681, 11,685, 11,702-3, 11,743, 11,750- 77, 11,834-42, 11,979-80, 12,000, 12,021-35, 12,04-5- 83, 12,087, 12,089, 12,283, 12,302, 12,333. Professor Crookshank's opinion as to the pedigree of Jenner's stock of Woodville's lymph. 11,679-80, 11,748,11,801- 2,11,807,11,823-6, 11,836, 11,843, 11,846-7, 11,975, 11,977-8, 11,999-12,017, 12,031-42, 12,044-51, 12,053- 6, App. 411. WEiaHT, Mk. THOMAS (analysis of his evidence) : Is a solicitor at Leicester and a Justice of the Peace for the Borough, has been a member of the corpora- tion for eleven years, and an Alderman since 1888, and has been Mayor, 14,921-6,14,943-7 ; was for the year 1883 president of the league existing in the town against compulsory vaccination, 14,939, 14,943-4. Owing to the cessation in the Leicester Union of prosecutions under the Vaccination Acts witness has not adjudicated upon any such cases, 14,927-8, 14,948-9, but states the course he would take if a case came before him, 14,950. Witness's opinion that vaccination ought not to be com- pulsorily enforced, 14,929-30, 14,943, 14,947, and that as regards Leicester vaccination would be more general if compulsion were withdrawn, 14,953-4. The feeling in Leicester as regards vaccination, and its compulsory enforcement, 14,930-45, 14,951-4. Case brought under witness's notice where a girl developed syphilis, and ultimately died, in the belief of her family from vaccination, 14,947. ZYMOTIC DISEASES : Mr. J. T. Biggs's diagram showing for the Borough of Leicester, for each of the years 1838-89, the estimated jjopulation 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 the numljer of registered vaccinations, public and private, 15,553-720, 15,726-8, 15,742, 15,747, 15,993-16,082, 16,107-8, 16,113-9, 16,175-83, 16,193, 16,200-2, 16,689-759, 16,763, 16,812-22, 16,843, 17,007-9, 17,02.9-38, 17,230-3, 17,255-6, 17,364-418, 17,449-53, 17,620-9, 17,836-7, 17,839-40, App. facing page 434 (Diagram A.) ; as to the materials from which the figures given on this diagram, so far as relating to the number of vaccinations, were obtained and the methods by which they were arrived at, and as to how far the figures given are comparal^le throughout the years dealt with on the diagram (13,.362-84, 13,620-1), 16,578-699, 15,700-3, 15,706-7, 15,726-8,15,993-16,082,16,107-8,16,179-83,16,200-2, 16,68,9-759, 17,007-9, 17,029-38, 17,230-3, 17,255-6. 17,364-418, 17,449-53, 17,620-9, 17,836-7, 17,839-40 ; 15,754-878; 15,879-973. Mr. J. T. Biggs's tables and diagrams, witli his observa- tions thereon, showing for the Borough of Leicester: for each of the years 1838-89, the numlje?- of deaths from each of the seven ])rincipal zymotic diseases, (16,781-2), 16,925-6, 16,930-3, 16,983-5, App. 438 (Table If)) ; for the years 1838-89, the total numJjer of deaths from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases with the per-centage of the deaths from eack of those diseases to the total deaths from all of them, 16,926-9, App. 439 (Table 17) ; during the years 1838-89 in tiuinquennial periods, the total and the average annual numl)er of deaths from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases with the average annual per-centage of registered vaccinations to births, 16,933-89, App. 439 (Table 18) ; for each of the years 1838-89, the death-rate from eacli of the seven principal zymotic diseases per million living with, for each of the years 1849-89, the per-centage of retristered vaccinations to births, 16,990-17,000, 17,013-23, 17,180-2, 17,2.39-43, 17,290-4, App. 440 (Table 19); during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial l^eriods, the average annual death-rate from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases per million living and the per-centage of the deaths from each of those diseases to the deaths from all of them with the average annual registered vaccinations to ten thousand births, 16,993, 16,996, 17,000-215, App. 441 (Table 20), App. facing page 441 (Diagram G.) ; during the years 1838-89 in quinquennial periods, the average annual number of deaths and the average annual death-rate fi'om the seven principal zymotic diseases per million living and from six of those diseases (excluding small-pox) with the average annual registered vaccinations per two hundred and fift}' thousand living and the average annual number of sanitaiy orders to abate nuisances, 17,21-5-94, App. 441 (Table 21), App. facing page 441 (Diagram H.) ; and, during the years 1838-89 in quinqueimial periods, the tota.l number of deaths at all ages from small- pox, from fevers, fi'om the seven principal zymotic diseases and from all causes and the proportion of the deaths from small-pox, from fevers and from the seven principal zymotic diseases per cent, of the deaths from all causes with the average annual per- centage of registered vaccinations to births, 17,809- 20, 17,839, App. 464 (Table 49), App. facing page 464 (Diagram P.).