First (-Second) 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:: 1889-1890

Credit: First (-Second) 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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$INDEX TO MINUTES OF BYIDENCE AND APPENDICES. [ j\r.2J. In this Index the Figures refer to the Questions in the Evidence, unless they follow the letters Apii., when they refer to the pages in the Appendix.'] JiCTS OF PABLIAMENT : Changes of law effected by the Vaccination Act of 1867, 29-31, 2-ii-253. Changes effected by the Vacci- nation Act of 1871, 32-34, 316-322, 350, 453; 476-479. The Act of 1867 inoperative, in Dr. Ogle's opinion, com- pared with the Act of 1871, 371, 372, 472-478, 534^ 544. A much greater proportion of children vacci- nated after the Act of 1871 was passed than before, 479. Appointment of Vaccination Officers under the Act of 1867 not at first general, 371, 537-540, 593- 596, 621-622, 683. The Vaccination Act of 1853 the means of more than doubling the number of infants annually vaccinated, 692. BADCOCK, Mk. : His experiments in variolating cows, App. 69. BALY, Dh. : Statement of Dr. Baly in support of the conclusion that vaccinated persons, in being rendered less sus- ceptible of small-pox, do not become more susceptible of any other infective disease or of phthisis, App. 102. BAREY'S, Dr., REPORT ON THE SHEFFIELD EPIDEMIC OF 1887-88: Eefen-ed to, 50, 258, 434, 740, 741, 780-782, 933, 981 982 1207 1209. Statistics quoted from, 739-742, 767-770, 858. BIEDWOOD, Dii.: Dr. Birdwood on the results of re-vaccinatiiig in one place only, 849. BLACK, De. : On the prevalence in 1788 of small-pox in large cities, principally amongst children under five years of age, 789. BUCHANAN, De. GEORGE: Dr. Buchanan's opinion upon the best age at which ■ to revaccinate children vaccinated in infancy, 110. Dr. Buchanan's Annual Report for 1884 quoted in explanation of the failure to reducefthe death-rate from small-pox over five years of age, whilst the death-rate under five years of age was enormously reduced, 706. CEELY, Me. : His experiments in variolating cows, 168, App. 68. CHAUVEAU, M. : His experiments in variolating cows, 168, 171, 172. CHICKEN-POX: Deaths from, in the earlier period of registration, were included with the small-pox deaths, 441, 442. Rarely or never fatal; in Dr. Ogle's opinion deaths returned under that head are probably due to small- pox, 460, 463, 466. Deaths returned from chicken-pox are as a rule of children under five years of age, 461. Deaths from chicken-pox and from small-pox in England and Wales, togethf r from 1838 to 1854, and separately from 1855 to 1887, 459, App. 115 (Table G.). CHRIST'S HOSPITAL: Information obtained from Dr. Evans, in 1857, rela- tive to the health of the institution at Hertford; absence of any death from small-pox during 16 years, App. 102. Particulars relative to the number of boys, and of deaths, in the institution in Loudon, in each of the years 1751-1856 ; conclusion of Mr. Stone, tlie surgeon, that vaccination could not have influenced the deaths, ib. 106. CICATRICES : The statistics collected by Mr. Marson showing a relation between the death-rate of small-pox patients and the number of cicatrices borne by them, referred to, 72-79, 224, 225, 301, 685-691, 831-838, App. 75. Classification of the completeness of vaccination depends on the number or size of characteristic cica- trices, 76-78, 97-99. Statistical evidence of the different degrees in which persons vaccinated in different ways will be safe against death by small-pox, if they should afterwards contract the disease, founded on information given in the 36th volume of the Me- dico-Chirurgical Society's Transactions, by Mr. Mar- ' son. Surgeon of the Small-pox Hospital, as the result of his observations made during 16 years, 1836-51, in 3,094 cases of post-vaccinal small-pox, and on data derived from Mr. Marson's evidence, in 1871, before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Vaccination Act (1867), based on a fm-ther experi- ence of 10,661 such cases, and covering the 16 years 1852-67, 685-691, 831-838, App. 116 (Table B.). Analysis of Dr. Gayton's 10,403 small-pox cases, issued in 1885, shovnng the fatality per cent, of attacks of patients classified according to the number and quality of their cicatrices, 706, 709-711, 716-719, App. 117 (Table D.). Average age at which persons contract small-pox found by Dr. Cory to become greater as the number of cicatrices they bear increases, 766. D]-. Gregory on the difficulty of determining whether a small-pox patient has reaUy been vaccinated, 841; aad on the cicatrix as a test of the degree to which the constitution has imbibed an anti-variolous influ- ence, 850. Dr. Birdwood on the results of re-vaccinating in one place only, 849. Dr. John H. Ranch on the number of punctures necessary in vaccinating, 1077-1079. Quality of vaccination judged by the appearances of the cicatrices, 1165. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS: Report of the Royal College of Physicians, in 1807, submitting various reasons for an extended adoption of the practice of vaccination, App. 71, 73, 97. CONSUMPTION: Evidence supplied by Sir John Simon, in 1857, in support of the conclusion that vaccination has not been attended with any increase of consumption, App. 88, 90. Conclusions of Dr. Baly as to phthisis not being communicated by vaccination, ih. 102. CORY, Dr. : Average age at which persons contract small-pox found by Dr. Cory to become greater as the number of cicatrices they bear increases, 766. COW-POX : Its source, 123, 189, 298, App. 67. In Sir John Simon's opinion is small-pox grafted upon the cow, 167, 168, 295-298. Spurious cow-pox, 124,202, 306-310. Spontaneous cow-pox, 198, 202, 323, 328. Cow-pox is a specific disease, 309-310, 329. Absolute origin of cow-pox in Sir John Simon's opinion necessarily involved in obcurity, 328. Classification of deaths from cow-pos and other eflects of vaccina- tion in the Annual Reporis of the Registrar-General, 546-550, 586-592. CREIGHTON, De. CHARLES: Dr. Creigliton on the influence of sewerage, water supply, and nuisance removal upon small-pox, 761. '$