Volume 2
Report on small-pox in Calcutta, 1833-34--1837-38--1843-44 : and vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 / by Duncan Stewart.
- Stewart, Duncan, 1804-1875
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on small-pox in Calcutta, 1833-34--1837-38--1843-44 : and vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 / by Duncan Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[tates] : the 4th 88, on the 5th 89, on the 6th 49, on the 7th 46, and the rest, with exception of 17, died within the month, so that no part of this mortality could be the effects of dentition, to which may probably be re- ferred the small number of 10 set down under the head of “nervous diseases,” fits, &c. during the 1st year. Of 88 mothers who lost their lives in child-birth, four appear to have been no older than 14, six were aged 15, and eight died between the age of 15 and 20. The Table exhibits a prevalence of fatal disease at the period of middle life which can only be account- ed for on one of two suppositions; either the climate is peculiarly favorable to infancy and old age, or the adult population of Calcutta is swelled by immigra- tion, and is greatly in excess; both explanations are probably true. According to the Carlisle Tables the mortality in England during infancy is very much greater than in Calcutta; but from the age of 6 upward to 60 the advantage is enormously in favor of England. From 60 upwards again, if the Ghat Returns can be depend- ed on, the advantage is on the side of Calcutta, and it seems natural enough that the climate favorable to infancy should be equally so to the feebleness of age. At the other periods of life the rate of casualty appears to be three or even four times as great as at Carlisle. Lhe influences of Age, Sex, and Occupation upon the intensity or duration of Small Pox in indivi- duals are shewn in the subjoined Table C, which gives the particulars of 1,000 fatal cases of Hindoos, which occurred within the town of Calcutta during the months of March and April 1844.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33097288_0002_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
