The history of small-pox in Australia, 1788-1908 / compiled from various sources by J.H.L Clumpston.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The history of small-pox in Australia, 1788-1908 / compiled from various sources by J.H.L Clumpston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    treatment there [Australasian Medical Gazette, July, 1885, p. 242). These details are not very complete, but from them is compiled the following information :— Two of the fatal cases were unvaccinated, but there is no record of the other two. The other cases may be classified thus :— a c .-a o 1 nflue mi- 1 nflue iscret vere. iscret ild. scret ;ry mi iscret o Pi> fi O Vaccinated within 12 days of onset of disease 3 3 1 3 ] 11 Vaccinated at 7 years.. 1 1 Vaccinated in infancy 2 o 1 3 7 1 1 17 Never vaccinated 6 1 G 1 1 4 19 8 4 11 3 4 14 o 2 48 That is, of those that had a severe attack—23 in number—13, or 56 per cent., had never been vaccinated, while 4, or 17 per cent., had been vacci- nated in infancy. The six who were vaccinated within the incubation period were vaccinated—two on the seventh day of incubation, and four on the tenth day of incubation; so that it is obvious that the vaccination in these cases could not modify the severity of the attack. Of those who had only mild attacks—25 in number—4 per cent, were vaccinated at seven years of age, 52 per cent, in infancy, and 24 per cent, were never vaccinated. To express the same facts another way— The one patient vaccinated at seven years of age had only a mild attack. Of seventeen patients who had been vaccinated in infancy four, or 23'5 per cent., had a severe attack, while thirteen, or 76*4 per cent., had a mild attack only. Of those nineteen patients who had never been vaccinated thirteen, or 68*4 per cent., had a severe attack, while six, or 31*6 per cent., had a mild attack only. It will be noticed that vaccination in infancy just about reversed the percentages that were experienced amongst the unvaccinated. 1888. On 31st March, 1888, a case of confluent small-pox in a child, aged two years, was reported at Manly, a suburb of Sydney. The child died on 6th April, and the medical man in attendance was fined for not reporting the case as small-pox.—[Australasian Medical Gazette, April-May, 1888, and Ann. Rep. S. A. Central Board Health, 1888-9, p. 14). This is a curious case, for there is no other case recorded in that year, or indeed since 1885, in either official reports or in contemporary unofficial literature. 1892. The introduction of small-pox by the E.M.S. Oroya in 1892 led to the occurrence of three cases of small-pox among the resident population of