A report on vaccination and its results : based on the evidence taken by the Royal Commission during the years 1889-1897.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Vaccination
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A report on vaccination and its results : based on the evidence taken by the Royal Commission during the years 1889-1897. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![litic family. * He adds, This conclusion is the direct contrary to that arrived at by the coroner's jury, as also by the surgeons at the Leeds Infirmary. Both the jury and the surgeons formed their opinions on the evidence and statements they received. If both came to an incorrect conclusion, as I hold they did, it was because they had not before them the whole story, as I have discovered and narrated it, and they were consequently misled/' 210. Here the matter would probably have terminated as far as official inquiry went had the Commission not been sitting. It was, however, agreed to ask Dr. Barlow to make an independent inquiry into the history of the case and the health of the family. He has reported to us that there is no evidence of syphilis in either parent of the child, and there is no evidence of inherited or acquired syphilis in either of the two elder children; and further he adds, nor does the history of the third [deceased] child suggest to me that it was the subject of inherited syphilis. On June 18th, 1891, the results of Dr. Barlow's inquiry were stated by the President of the Local Government Board in the House of Commons in reply to a question by Mr. Herbert Gladstone. We have since examined Messrs. Littlewood and Ward and Dr. Barrs, who adhere to the opinion that the child died from syphilis acquired by vaccination, and confirm the opinion of Dr. Barlow that there was no suspicion of syphilis in the parents of the child or their elder children.2 Mr. HutchinsoD has also in a publication {' Archives of Surgery,' vol. i, No. 2) added the weight of his testimony to the fact that there is. no evidence of syphilis in any of the family. 211. What then was the nature of the disease from which the child died ? This question involves the larger question of the relationship of cow-pox and syphilis, between which diseases Dr. Creighton suggests that there is a close analogy. > 23,701. i 23,701-3 ; 23,838-47.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21012040_0457.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
