Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09

isted."
1 In 1870 there were 80 900 Prussian soldier
in hospital, all of whom had been vac
cinated and reyaccinated. In 1850. on th
United States frigate Independence, wer
$50 persons and 116 cases of smallpox,
fatal, all with genuine marks. In 1864
ship company of 212 persons, 81 cases
smallpox, deaths. All vaccinated afte
voyage began.
In the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1871, wer
30, 742 cases OF smallpox of whom 29, 429 hat
been vaccinated.
Annual report Of Health Department o
city of New York 1901: "This extraor
dinary prevalence OF smallpox over variou
parts of the globe. especially in countrie
where vaccination has long been officiall,
practiced; its occurrence in its most fata
forms In persons who gave evidence of haV
ing been we'll vaccinated and the remarka
BILE susceptibility of people Of all ages to re
vaccination are new facts in the history o
this pestilence which must lead to reinvesti
CATION of the whole subject of vaccination
and OF its claims as q protecting agent.
Smallpox continued epidemic in spite o.
the most rigorous enforcement of vaccina
tion. In Baltimore. 1882, there were 4,93t
cases, of which s, 506 were children; deaths
1,1S4, of which $50 were children. OF th'
vaccinated e, 1859, 327 died.
In Chicago smallpox increased tie more
rlgidly vaccination was enforced. In Mi
Ian, in 1871, there were II, 109 cases only 27S
of which were unvaccinated. In 1871
there were II, 174 cases of smallpox in Lon
don after vaccination, which is compulsory
before the third month. London Lancet
July Is, 1871:
LIKE A PLAGUE.
''The deaths from smallpox have assumed
the proportions of plague. Over 10, 00C
lives have been sacrificed during the past
year in England and Wales. In London
5,641 death have occurred since Christmas.
OF 1892 in smallpox hospitals 6, 854 had
been vaceinated. Taking the mortality at
17H per cent. of those attacked and the
deaths this year in the whole country at
10, 900 it will follow that more than 122 900
vaccinated persons have suffered from small
pox. This is an alarming state of things.
Can we greatly wonder that the opponents
Of vaccination should point to such statistics
as an evidence of the failure of the system?
1t is necessary to speak plainly on this i'm
pertant matter"
1t will be seen BY the above percentage of
deaths, that Notwithstanding the advance
ment in medical science, hygiene, etc., that
the mortality was the same, practically. as
that before vaccination was introduced.
The following table of results, before and
after vaccination, is of interest:
IT'S to 1779 before vaccination. there were:
Cases. Deatha Per cent
24,s9i 4,7N 1883
1886 to 1851. after vaccination:
Cases. Vaccinated. Deaths. Per cent
,169. 34,526 9,04S 1878
This shows that vaccination had no effect
in diminishing the percentage of mortality.
Smallpox as treated now and smallpox as
treated by the medical men of the eighteenth
century is the same unmodiied disease. 1t
exacts the same ratio OF victims, runs the
poor Indians fare worse, for everyone of
them vaccinated died of smallpox.
But why multiply these statistical evil
deDces Of the unreliability of vaccination?
Is there not enough already given to justify
my position that it is humbug. It is CO.
temporaneous with bloodletting and the
treatment of typhoid fever with boiling
waterfall
BARBARoUs IN THE EXTREME
and abandoned long ago, as would also vac.
cination be, if it was not a convenient way
to lay hands upon the public funds Were
the money spent for vaccinating used by
boards of health in exercising their free pre-
condition Of cities, greater good would be
principle of right or justice constitutes
board OF health-a collective physician. SO
to speak-that it should prescribe medicine,
inoculative or otherwise, for one to absorb.
Nowhere can it be shown that less small
pox means fewer deaths. and right here 1
will present some facts that are enough to
make the thoughtless think. It illustrates
the fact that one epidemic predominates for
a time, during which the other forms of
zymoses are in abeyance. The law of
vicarious mortality is shown. Living under
certain conditions the death rate of people
will be definite number every year Der
100000 living. Nothing will vary it to
sensible degree except an alteration in the
conditions of living.
The prevalence of one disease means the
subsistence of another. The law of compen-
sation is shown, for instance in Sweden.
In 1925 smallpox killed ,243, typhus 1852.
In 1929 smallpox killed 3d. typhus rose to
9.264. In 1916 smallpox 2, and the total
deaths from all causes 72,6S3. In 1851,
smallpox being epidemic in spite OF
thorough vaccination, the deaths from that
disorder was 2, ,4Ss, and the general mortality
72, ,506.
DR.. Watt was astonished to ind that
though smallpox abated when vaccination
came into fashion (it abated before this,
however,, yet the death rate in general did
not diminish. Look at the following figures
from the Glasgow death statistics:
decade. sPsS,nor PsSm Msss1n. From w1hSoging 1.g
lsO8-l2. .IOl2 l,s55 l,i5i
Smallpox decreased to less than one-third.
Measles increased over five times the num-
Der. Whooping cough increased about one
third.
IT SAVES NO LIVES.
In the House of Commons in 1878 Sir
Chambers said: "You cannot show
that vaccination has saved single lite.
There may be no smallpox, but the disap-
pearance of smallpox is by no means eouiva-
lent to a reduction of mortality"
Another table gives the three lowest years
Of smallpox deaths, 1841, 1851. 1855, when
there was an average of 1.051 from smallpox.
The general death rate per thousand was
23.9 per cent. The three highest years were
1868, 1871, 1877, when the average smallpox
deaths was 4.153. The average death rate
per thousand was still 23.6 per cent Is this
not a wonderful showing? Does it not
prove that there is but one thing competent
to contend with zymoses, and that cleanli-
ness?
The London Lancet in 1871 says: "It
must be admitted that the existing system
of public vaccination has been sadly dis
credited and almost wrecked by the present
epidemic.
Alexander Won Humboldt said he clearly
perceived the progressive dangerous infin-
ence of vaccination in England, France
aud Germany. DR.. William Rowley, in
lS05 saws. "0ut nj 504 nerso0s vsccin atnj