Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination : a special article / [Kenneth W. Millican].
- Millican, Kenneth William, 1853-1915.
- Date:
- [1907]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination : a special article / [Kenneth W. Millican]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE A. Death rates from smallpox per 100,000 people dur- ing the highest year of tlie epidemic of 1870-2', re- spectively in ten cities—tw6 partially protected by vaccination in infancy only (though imperfectly car- ried out), eight entirely unprotected by general vac- cination. No General Vaccination Partial Vacci. Prague Vienna., Sl Paris Breslau Berlin Dresden Hamburg M unich London 1872 1872 bCu'S 1870 1871 1871 1871 1871 1871 1871 3S6.5 526.9 No 521.2 367.3 632.6 326.6 1075.5 89.0 242.2 statistics — Note.—Compare also with the foregoing figures, the smallpox mortality during this period of the German Army (compulsorily vaccinated) which in 1871 reached a maximum mortality of 30.5 per 100.000, while the German civil population, which had no compulsory vaccination, suffered a mortality of 262.4. From an editorial article in the Times11 summarizing the Report for 1904-5 of the Medical Department of the Local Government Board (England) we learn that in the Union of Dewsbury, England, there have been yearly serious outbreaks of smallpox from 1892 to 1904. Dr. Wheaton, who was sent down by the Local Government Board to- report in Sep- tember, 1904, “found that the epidemic was fast passing beyond the control of the sanitary authorities, and that the Dewsbury guardians [the normal vaccinating authority] were ab- staining from doing anything to help them. The town smallpox hospital was over full, and its administration completely disorganized. The general state of the locality is described as being ‘altogether pitiable.’. ... At length, 17Times, September 22, 1906. Reproduced in full in the Monthly Homoeopathic Review (London) for December 1, 1906.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2247982x_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
