The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-08-29
Vaccination statistics.-Doaths from
Smal-PoE.

Enron GAzEErE;-Ihs larger portion of the
medical profession believe In the efficiency oi
vaccination as q preventive Of small -u1 iu large
majority ol cases-a Egg do u0t-but there are
many laymeu. and some Of intelligence who do
not To both Glasses OF professionals and nom
professionals the following statistics presented IN
recent discussion Iu the British House Of Com
mons, cannot fail 10 be instructive, If not con
yiuciuC, and as additional facts to yiudicate vac
cIuation as D. part 0s the sanitary system here,
and everywhere they ale highly lmp1rtaut-of
course It Is all important, that the genuine virus
..nlv should bga-ga. S.N.C..
I-us.ngA, June aJth ls,5.
Tho slarm ui dIsLuyor which has been SO long
Gathering against tHg practice VI vaccination
broke m the H1B-H of Commons s-Ll proved III
It's results % Doe o. NurItalig ttmpLust la 81 teapot,
That the opposition after tLg tremendous rum
nus u has raised for the last igW months, should
have been swept away ua that aecls3-l 10y "a
vote uf $50 20 lE. shows LHa easily lLe AHL0s ua-
Il1ustratIuls of iga pgl.gss-1ua- a-it.-.1E7
may be mistaken ill a great popular lt-+'4ll-.
sir LYON Pllvialr, llr member Jog Lar lL'F.E-.t.
uf E4iuburEH. vino C4anuulaA t-. uAls.lE-
regime. supported LIs arEIluel. .l SOME N.F. VAL
uable statistic which vI. u' eaant De- read al-a
as much lllugC7- ua your 5lun u. l4- Atlantic a-
uu this. lie showed tlilt gst...r Iu L-- las; cen
fgTv the annual deaths from al.-l-IH1 Ia E!-.lu
aud Walu- averaged .plI Iu 90. Uuliul ui puHu-
ton that followed tue average was ug1 ia Tie
million. that lu tlu period from ISL tl le'i when
gratuItuus vaccination bF.s introduced Tie average
fell 10 Jl5 that under the urst obligatory aci from
1851 10 ISL there was a further reduction 90 2h,
and that from 1871 20 lo-3i. tEl umg during which
the present compulsory laW lad been Iu operation,
the average had been reduced 60 10 no Tue million.
Additional statistics lu ine sEmg lime Wesa -d-
duced by Dr. Cameron. who sand that Do Tine last
hfty years, ont OF s7l5 asocrtaIugd Casez u' vac
cIuatlUn and nun-vaccluatIou, III sou cases ul
characterization the deaths weru @4Vl, ur 80 per
cent while Of tnc remaining leul' cas-, ul vac
Cluatlou, the deaths were only 90 the rate ui -
per cent. II had also been found, SAID the gentle
man. that cases of death where there was one III
nuCGlatIug mark were twice as numerous as where
there were three and four marks. Sir Charles
Duke. Secretary OF the Local Government Boaru
also came 20 the support OF vaccination with some
interesting figures. There were 1854 persons, LIE
said, employed IL the London Postal Service. all
Of whom were required TO be yuCCIuGtgC uu enter
ing the service unless tue operation had been per
formed seven years previously la The ten years
from ls70tO locO tlrrg had not been single death
from smallpox IN TINS force, and although there
had been au epidemic during that pgTIpa there
had been only ten cases among the men. and they
very slight. Assuming the statements made hs
those opposing compulsory vaccination 10 by cor
rect VIZ: that g6 per cent of the population OF
the metropolis were yaCcluateu and 4 per cent un-
NacClnatgd, the speaker last named proceeded 10
draw some suggestive lnterences tIuiu the ssall5-
tics Of the las, great epidemic. III lut whole OF
the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, on that occasion, there had been, be SAID.
1855 deaths OF which not but 40 Per cent were Of
persons altogether unvaCciuAteu. In the period
since the epidemic there had been 635 deaths, anu
fh3 cases the persons were uuNaccluajgd, while IN
2aG only were they yaccIugtei. 81 that uGl OF
3s6l.u0l persons vacCluatcd III London, uuly -
died, while ont OF 10000 uuyaccIuulvd, 45j oIad.
These figures were, OF course. uuauswcrable anu
overwhelming. The House OF Commons never.
perhaps, never enjoyed higher treat ~ tll sta
tistical line, and the crushing force of this
mastery defense Of vaccination was promptly and
forcibly expressed III the unc-s'dud vote that
followed.