Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-08-11
From the Phi adeIphia Inquirer
VACCINATION-THE VALUE OF THE DIS.
COVERV

COVERY
Some valuable information in relation TO vaccinns-
nal of tbs Medical Sciences The lectures of Dr. Guv
are quoted and important statistics are furnished ty
way OF illustration. For the len wears ending 7o he
are lnoeola'ion, the deaths from srna pos in million
OF Inhabitants amounted to 81 ,46 For ten years en-
ding l749, during which iaocuaton was partially prsc-
hced deaths BY the disease amounted to % 2s2
foF ne ten years ending 1922, nnoculaon being in
geao al USE the deaths in million by the disease
amounted TO 20 1853. For The ten years ending 1919
vaccination being in general u.s. the deaths by SMALL
pox in iilion of inhabitants were reduced o 8445
L or ten years ending 1919, during which nnoculaon
was superseded by vaccination, the deaths 10 million
by the same disease reduced to 1893. The val
ue OF vaccination is thus made appear in The stron-
gest light. According TO Mr. Farr, from III to 1890
no less than five in 600 died annually from sma -pox
while in 1901 TO 1910 The mortality sank to two and In
1881 TO 1885 no less than one in O O. DR. Guy saws
THAT incubation may really have been the means
OF saving lie to some extent does not seem altogether
improbable when we bear mind that in p ace of the
morality OF one IN tour, which attended the small pox
caught IN the usual way, the loss under incubation
when skllfully ard carefully pTacticed, did excel
one in 500 So that quite possible hat the mischief
which incubation wrought by spreading the disease
among those who might ne yer have caught the natural
small pox was coun eraced by the coed it ee, ted in
reducing the danger to very Insignificant amount
put even admitting the Jus ice of this compensation,
tue benefit really due nocuaon does not exceed the
saving OF $500 lives in 81 500 whereas the boon con-
erTed by vaccination Is represented by a reduction of
the mortality from nearly % 900 in The len wears end 10
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thea 10 less than 5ooo-being saving of life more
than twice as great as that effected by incubation
"Bnt the superiority of vaccination over incubation
is only partially and impertectly represented by the
greater saving of Life which effects. 1t has the great
additional merit OF requiring no preparation confine
ment OF prod ICING very trlfng indsposition, aud OF
eniaiing no danger. Above all, it is free from the
great objection TO inoculaton-,hat while the latter
mtigales the disease in the individual bings the in
lection home to those who may happen to be unpro-
tected, and who might never been exposed to tho
| contagon OF the natural sinai pox."
According to Dr. Jenner, from he year 1862 to 1892
the namber that died o. small box the Danish do
mnone, amoaf ted to 9,72S About the year 1902 vac
clnaon was first in oduced and the plac ice came
ger era but not universally however fifty -eigf persons
only died OF the small -pox to the year 1910. Vac
elnauon' by command OF The King, was universally
adopted, and smapox incubation prohblted And
from the year 1870 to the year l59 not single case
OF smallpox occurred lie adds that The relative VAL
ue OF the vaccination and uoculaton and the propor-
tonal risk oil the protected and unprotected, viii be
best seen by supposng 5000 unprotected, noculaed
and vaccnated persons, pectively be exposed to
the danger OF catching small-p ox, The results, as
regards these several partes shown in the annexed
table: