"It is often asserted that no one
ever pretended that vaccination would abolish smallpox.
But Jenner told the House of Commons, in 1802, that he
confidently expected the extension of the inoculation of the
cowpox to do so, and in 1852 the Epidemiological Society, or rather the late Dr. Seaton, assured the House of Lords that " everybody was liable to smallpox unless vaccinated "—
Dictum untrue both in what it asserts and what it implies.
We have the means of testing the value of these predictions
in our own country by the Death Register, which is sufficiently accurate for our purpose, since the year 1838.
We find, then, from the Death Register for England and Wales,
that between the years 1838 and 1853, while vaccination
was voluntary, the annual smallpox mortality varied from
271- to 16,268; and between the years 1854 and 1872, with
vaccination largely increased under compulsion, from 1320
to 22,907.
The variations in London for the same periods,
respectively, were from 21 r to 3817, and from 156 to 7876.
We have at hand the record, for the years 1855 to 1873, of
smallpox mortality in Scotland, which in point of population
is something like London turned out into the country.
Here we find that for the years 1855 to 1864, under voluntary
vaccination, the variation was from 426 to 1741 ; and for
the years 1865 to 1873, under compulsion, from 15 to 2448.
It seems difficult, in the face of these figures, to see value
in vaccination as a prophylactic.
But we have another witness to call in the Reports of the
French Academy of Medicine, which collect from the several
Departments of France an account not only of the deaths
by smallpox, but also of the cases occurring year by year,
these Reports have been carefully examined and collated
for the years 1865, 1866, and 1867, and each tells the same
tale. There is no direct compulsion on this subject in
France, and the greatest diversity of practice exists in the
several Departments. Thus, the' whole country being divided
into two groups of Departments, viz., those in which the
proportions of vaccinations to births reach 50 per cent
(averaging 77 per cent) and those in which the proportion is less (averaging 35 per cent), we find that for the former
group the cases were (in proportion to 10,000 births), in 1865,
569 as compared with 222 for the latter, less vaccinated
group.
In 1866 the corresponding record is 400 to 130 ; and
in 1867, 254 to 83. Here we have surely a clear evidence
that the extension of vaccination does not necessitate a diminution of smallpox.
We conclude, then, that Vaccination is not scientific ; that it cannot be accurately defined ; that it is completely
useless for its assumed purpose ; that fortification of the
body by disease is a mischievous myth, and that the sooner
the practice is discontinued the better it will be for the
health of the community.
Excepts and conclusion:
What about Smallpox? I
"It is often asserted that no one ever pretended that vaccination would abolish smallpox. But Jenner told the House of Commons, in 1802, that he confidently expected the extension of the inoculation of the cowpox to do so, and in 1852 the Epidemiological Society, or rather the late Dr. Seaton, assured the House of Lords that " everybody was liable to smallpox unless vaccinated "—
Dictum untrue both in what it asserts and what it implies. We have the means of testing the value of these predictions in our own country by the Death Register, which is sufficiently accurate for our purpose, since the year 1838.
We find, then, from the Death Register for England and Wales, that between the years 1838 and 1853, while vaccination was voluntary, the annual smallpox mortality varied from 271- to 16,268; and between the years 1854 and 1872, with vaccination largely increased under compulsion, from 1320 to 22,907.
The variations in London for the same periods, respectively, were from 21 r to 3817, and from 156 to 7876.
We have at hand the record, for the years 1855 to 1873, of smallpox mortality in Scotland, which in point of population is something like London turned out into the country.
Here we find that for the years 1855 to 1864, under voluntary vaccination, the variation was from 426 to 1741 ; and for the years 1865 to 1873, under compulsion, from 15 to 2448. It seems difficult, in the face of these figures, to see value in vaccination as a prophylactic.
But we have another witness to call in the Reports of the French Academy of Medicine, which collect from the several Departments of France an account not only of the deaths by smallpox, but also of the cases occurring year by year, these Reports have been carefully examined and collated for the years 1865, 1866, and 1867, and each tells the same tale. There is no direct compulsion on this subject in France, and the greatest diversity of practice exists in the several Departments. Thus, the' whole country being divided into two groups of Departments, viz., those in which the proportions of vaccinations to births reach 50 per cent (averaging 77 per cent) and those in which the proportion is less (averaging 35 per cent), we find that for the former group the cases were (in proportion to 10,000 births), in 1865, 569 as compared with 222 for the latter, less vaccinated group.
In 1866 the corresponding record is 400 to 130 ; and in 1867, 254 to 83. Here we have surely a clear evidence that the extension of vaccination does not necessitate a diminution of smallpox.
We conclude, then, that Vaccination is not scientific ; that it cannot be accurately defined ; that it is completely useless for its assumed purpose ; that fortification of the body by disease is a mischievous myth, and that the sooner the practice is discontinued the better it will be for the health of the community.
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