The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-01-19
ONE DEATH IN EIGHTY THOU.
SAND VACCINATIONS.
what DIR. Sayre, of New York, says
About the Prevention.

DIR. Sayre took up some memo
randa from his desk and, referring
to them occasionally, went on in a.
earnest, impressive manner:
"In 1927 a most malignant ant
fatal epidemic of small pox ragged
in Philadelphia. Drs. Cox, Condle
and Meigs, of the committee of the
medical society, of that city, report
that but one-now you ought to re-
peat that 'one' several times to fasten
it i'll the peoples minds-but one
well ascertained death from that
disease among eighty thousand vac
clnated persons came to the knowl-
edge of the committee. Let the
phantom physicians take up that
point and consider it. Drs. Bell and
Mitchell report that of two hundred
and forty-eight cases of variola and
varioloid treated at the small pox
hospital, one hundred and fifty-tive
were unprotected by vaccination,
of whom eighty-five died, nine were
inoculated, of whom three died, and
sixty-three had been vaccinated, OF
whom but a single one died. There
is another good place to pause.
-"Now let us take a little trip
abroad and see what we shall find.
Here we are landed in Copenhagen.
That's good spot to start from and
we hit upon very good period, too,
the years from 1925 to 1927. IN
epidemic of small pox ragged there
then. What are the facts? All
here we are at a new phase of the
subject! Great numbers were vac
cinated and out of these numbers
42S were attacked with the disease.
In twenty-six of these all the symp-
toms of genuine variola were
evinced, but only two of them died.
There's the record. Now well take
a crabs march and go back to 1901.
From that year to 1922 in Holstein
234,959 persons were subjected to
vaccination, and during all this
period, aud for two years subse-
quently, only two cases of small pox
occurred. In the Kingdom of Dem
mark, during the same period, only
one individual among $4,000 vac
cinated had been attacked by modi
fled variola. Thus showing that in
u population of 682,564, with the
exception of three cases, the disease
was entirely exterminated for a
space of twenty-three years. l think
that's a good place to take breath
Eli?
"Now L will give you few sta
tistics on the subject. Figures talk
more plainly to the ordinary man
than anything else, aud here are
some figures that will send this mat
ter home to the conviction of every
man. l have taken them from DR..
John Simon's report to the presi-
dent of the general board of health
of England. This work shows, first,
how many persons in each million of
the population died annually of
small pox before the use of vacci-
nation, now mind that-before the
use of vaccinatiOn-and, second, how
many persons in each million of the
population have annually died since
the use of vaccination.
FIGURES TO SHOW THE UTILlTY OF
VACCINATION.
"Here, now, are the two vital
points. By reference to these tables
we see that previous to the use of
vaccination there died annually of
small pox out of every million in
Westphalia during the years 1860
2643, and during thirty-five years,
from 1860 (after vaccination was
adopted) the annual death rate from
the same disease was only ia. In
Copenhagen the deaths by small pox
were 1928 annually. For every
million for many years and after
vaccination it was only 2S6. In Ber-
lin for twenty-five years previous to
the general use of vaccination the
annual death rate by small pox was
1922, and for forty years subse-
quently it has been only $40. In
Sweden for twenty-eight years pre-
ceding the use OF vaccination out of
every 100000 of the population
there died from small pox annually
2050, and for forty years after the
use of vaccination the annual death
rate by small pox was only 15S of
every 100000. This report was
presented 10 both houses of par
lament by command of her maj
esty, but 1T carried on ats face its
own importance. ~--