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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    the vaccinated, but among whom the Small-pox mortality is greatest. (2.) Children too weakly or diseased to be vaccinated, and whose low vitality renders any severe disease fatal. (3.) A large but unknown number of the criminal and nomad population who escape the vaccination officers. These are often badly fed and live under the most unsanitary conditions ; they are, therefore, especially liable to suffer in epidemics of Small-pox or other zymotic diseases. It is by the indiscriminate union of these three classes, together with those erroneously classed as unvaccinated owing to the obliteration of marks or other defect of evidence, that the number of deaths registered unvaccinated is swollen far beyond its true proportions, and the comparison with those registered ''vaccinated rendered altogether untrustworthy and misleading. This is not a mere inference, for there is much direct evidence that the records unvaccinated and no statement in the Reports of the Registrar-General are often erroneous. As the chief argument for vaccination rests upon this class of facts, a few examples of the evidence referred to must be here given.