This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...their wives and children give quite a sum total. Among these there were 2627 cases of smallpox, of which 469 died, or 17.85 per cent. The ratio of deaths at various ages was: --Vaccinated. Unvaccinated. Under 1 year, 57.14 43.78 From 1 to 2 years, 52.05 38.96 "2" 3" 34.15 17.86 "3" 4" 21.88 16.88 "4" 5" 23.64 13.70 "5 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...their wives and children give quite a sum total. Among these there were 2627 cases of smallpox, of which 469 died, or 17.85 per cent. The ratio of deaths at various ages was: --Vaccinated. Unvaccinated. Under 1 year, 57.14 43.78 From 1 to 2 years, 52.05 38.96 "2" 3" 34.15 17.86 "3" 4" 21.88 16.88 "4" 5" 23.64 13.70 "5 " 10" 19.23 7.76 or "3 to 15" 15.41 10.32 These are the years usually considered fully protected by vaccination; but it will be seen in every case that the unvaccinated had the advantage. Dr. Keller concludes his paper as follows: --1. Generally more vaccinated than unvaccinated persons were attacked by smallpox. 2. Re-vaccination did not protect from smallpox, and did not lessen the general mortality. 3. Neither vaccination nor re-vaccination exercised a favorable influence upon the mortality of smallpox."46 10 Allgemeine Wiener Medizinische Zeitung, August, 1873. There is an unfounded opinion that smallpox was extremely virulent before the era of vaccination. It is true, there were mild epidemics and severe ones, but on the whole, in civilized communities, the death-rate was moderate compared with the total mortality. Dr. Lotz gives the statistics of smallpox during a epidemic in Posen, in 1798. The percentage of deaths to cases was under one year, 35.9 per cent.; under two years, 29.0 per cent.; under three years, 19.6 per cent.; under four years, 16.6 per cent.; under five years 13.4 per cent. That is of all the children under five years of age, who took smallpox, 22.9 out of 100 died. This corresponds very nearly to English hospital experience already quoted. In the annexed table a comparison is instituted between two epidemics in the last century and that of 1871. I...
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