Forty-five years of registration statistics, proving vaccination to be both useless and dangerous. In two parts / By Alfred R. Wallace.

  • Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Forty-five years of registration statistics, proving vaccination to be both useless and dangerous. In two parts / By Alfred R. Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    among picked healthy men under constant medical supervision, and living under far better sanitary conditions than the mass of the civil population. One other mode of comparison can be made, showing that even the Army Small-pox death- rate is but little better than that of some large towns, during the same period. The rate per million for the adult population, between the ages 15 and 55, on an average of the years 1860-82 for five very large towns was as follows :—^ Manchester, (population 340,211 in 582), 131 per million. 315,998 „ 119 Brighton ... ), 109,595 „ 114 Bradford ... 200,158 „ 104 Oldham ... )> 115,572 „ 89 )> Of course there are many other towns which have a much higher mortality, but very few are * These figiires have been thus obtained—the Registi-ai--Generars Summaiy, 1882, (Table 7, p. xv.) gives the Small-pox deaths per 1,000, for twenty great Towns, for the years 1872-82. The Parliamentaiy Return, Vaccination, Mortality, 1877, gives the Small-pox mortality and population of a considerable number of towns for the years 1847-72. From these two official papers the Small-pox mortality per million of the whole male population from i860 to 1882, for such towns as occur in both the tables, is easily obtained. The average Small-pox death-rate for all England is found to be 2117, wlrile that of the ages 15—55 is 176. These numbers are in the proportion of I to -83 ; hence the total Small-pox mortality of any town multiplied by the factor 83 will give, approximately, the mortality at ages 15—45- The proportion has been obtained from males only, but that of the two sexes combined will not be materially different,