Preventive medicine : statistics of small-pox and vaccination in the United Kingdom, and the necessity for a better system of vaccination in Ireland : read at the meeting of the British Association, (Section F) Aberdeen / by William Moore.
- Moore, William
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Preventive medicine : statistics of small-pox and vaccination in the United Kingdom, and the necessity for a better system of vaccination in Ireland : read at the meeting of the British Association, (Section F) Aberdeen / by William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![The following are the returns* of vaccination performed by the dispensary medical officers in Ireland amiually for the last land, six years, ended September 30th, 1858 :— r 1853, number of cases vaccinated, 43,332 I 1854, „ „ 52,844 Year ended] 1855, ,, ,, 46,711 30th Sept. 1 1856, ,, ,, 84,131 1857, „ „ 47,855 11858, „ ,, 54,984 The number of dispensary vaccinations for 1858, though ex- ceeding that of the preceding year by 7,000, is stiU very far below what it ought to be. In the medical charities report for 1857 we have given reasons for believing that the complete vac- cination of the children bom within the year, the condition of whose parents is such as fairly to entitle them to apply for gra- tuitous vaccination, would demand about 140,000 vaccinations annually, not very much mider three times the number vaccinated last year. A small increase appears for 1858 in the number of cases of small-i^ox returned : 565 for this year against 498 for 1857, but as the figmes in the table for the last cpiarter of 1858 are, in some measure, foxmded on estimates, the medical officers’ returns for this quarter not being yet complete, these stati.stics are not in every respect reliable. The last annual reportt of that valuable establishment, the Report of Cow-pock Institution, Dublin, shows that during the year end- i,”s'titutioi ing the 31st March, 1859, there have been 3,194 cases vaccinated Dublin, at tliis institution. These numbers may be seen by a comparison to exceed those of the previous year by 1,248. This increase is attributed to greater facilities for vaccination afforded to the in- habitants of the south side of the city, from the establishment of an auxiliary branch in York-street. The directors go on to state that they believe they are correct in stating that Ireland is the only country in Europe in which the people are left entirely to themselves, as to vaccination, and are permitted either to ne- glect or subject their children to the process, as they please. The directors are of opinion that imtd an act can be introduced into Ireland similar to that in England and Scotland, there can- not be carried out any efficient system of punishing, by fine or penalty, those parents or guardians who have neglected to have * Seventh annual report of the Commissioners of Irish Poor Law Medical Charities Ireland, 1859, page 11. t Annual Report of Cow Pock Institution, 45, Upper Saekville-street, Dub- lin, year ending 31st March, 1859.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22362277_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
