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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![N versed, and tire diminution in the death rate among the vaccinated has taken place for the most part among children. Upon this fact Acland (/. c.) remarks, “If it were due to sanitation the same beneficent results ought to be shown in the death rate from other diseases which are rightly considered as infan- tile disorders. But this is not the case. On the con- trary,although the share of smallpox mortality borne by children (under five years of age) diminished greatly [in England] between 1851 and 1880, during which years vaccination was made compulsory, there is no corresponding diminution in the share of the death rate in children of the same age from other in- fantile disorders, such as measles, scarlet fever, diph- theria ,etc.” Acland gives the figures in this matter,as cal- culated by McVail,from pp. 112-114 of the Re- gistrar-General’s Supplement to the Forty- fifth Annual Report, 1871-1880. The explanation of this lies in the fact that among vaccinated children full protection is in force, while among adults who have not been recently vaccinated the protection has “run out.” At the time of the Boston epidemic before referred to, Boston was considered one of the best sanitated cities in the United States. Since sanitation would necessarily benefit vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, it is hard, on Mr. Hub- bard’s assumption, to understand why, as Thompson asserts was the case (page 37), “all the cases occurred in people who were either unvaccinated, or, if vaccinated in infancy, had not been revaccinated at , all or at least for many years.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2247982x_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
