Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts.

  • Burdett, Henry C., Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    precautions with regard to the performance of vaccination are, however, so strict—thanks to the regulations of the Local Government Board—that very little danger of erysipelas or other skin disease is likely to arise. At any rate, all conceiv- able precautions are taken against such dangers. In every book on health the following table, compiled by Mr Marson, ought to have a place, especially as at the present day there is in some quarters a great outcry against vaccination. It shows the rate of mortality in cases of small-pox treated at the Small-Pox Hospital over a long series of years. Classification. No. of deaths per cent. TJnvaccinated, . . . . .35 Stated to have been vaccinated, but no cicatrix, 23'57 Vaccinated— Having one cicatrix, . . . 7*73 -Having two cicatices, . . . 4-70 Having three cicatrices, . . . 1-95 Having four or more, . . . -55 Having previously had small-pox, . . 19* This table ought to convince any reasonable being as to the good effect of vaccination, and also as to the necessity of a sufl&cient number of well-defined cicatrices. With regard to re-vaccination, this trifling operation should be performed at fourteen to sixteen years of age. If quite unsuccessful, it should be again performed till, if possible, some result is obtained. The result as a rule is not so good as in primary vaccination, and sometimes it occasions a great deal more inflammation tending to the erysipelatous type. Ee-vaccination may be said to practically give a complete immunity against death from small-pox, and to render even an attack of that disease exceedingly rare. In a few quarters there is a prejudice against allowing