The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-30
STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY JANUARY 80 1900

ing the first year of life and reVaCCina-
tion at the age of IL years was made
compulsory by law, and with the effect
that in the year 1876 the death rate was
lowered to 36 per 100000 inhabitants;
the next year it was lowered to 81; the
next to 9 and so through later years
with an average annual mortality of
IL per 100000 people During the year
1890 only So cases occurred in the whole
German empire; or, 1.1S cases to each
100000 of population.
A village in Leicestershire, England,
of 1000 inhabitants, was visited by the
pestilence in 1872. All but two of the
inhabitants were efficiently vaccinated
and escaped the disease, whereas the
two unvaccinated persons died of it.
The late DIR. j. II. Rauch, for many
years secretary of the state board of
health, has shown that in the Illinois
epidemic of 1873 the mortality rate of
the vaccinated was approximately per
cent and of the unvaccinated 1t was
| 40 per cent.
Corpally has demonstrated that in the
| Sheffield, England, epidemics of 1878
vaccinated children were, as compared
with the unvaccinated twenty times
| less liable to attack from smallpox, and
! Itwenty-four times less liable to die when
| attacked. This is to say, the vaccinat-
| ed children had, as compared with the
unvaccinated, four hundred and eighty
fold security against death from small
poX
In the Halifax, England, epidemic of
| 1923, the oath rate from smallpox
| among vaccinated persons was 18 per
cent, and among the unvaccinated
was nearly Al per cent. No case
occurred in a vaccinated child under
years of age, and in the Leicestershire
| epidemic of 1898 no case occurred in
vaccinated child under 10 years of age.
From the records of 5000 cases treat
ed in the municipal hospital of Phila-
delphia, according to w. NJ. Welch, in
the New York Medical Journal, March,
1894, it appears that the death rate in
that institution in post vaccinal cases.
and in all in which there had been
an attempt at vaccination are included
was 1926 per cent, and the death rate in
non-vaccinal cases was 5S.3S per cent.
Seventy-three per cent Of the cases in
unvaccinated infants under 1 year of
age ended in death, and no fatal case
occurred among vaccinated infants of
the same age. Between the ages of J.
and years the mortality of post vac
cinal cases was 81 per cent, and of
nOn-v -vaccinaI cases was 51.4S per cent.
: DIR. Benz. Lee, of Philadelphia, Pa. (;
in his report to the Pennsylvania State
|, Medical society, 1873, shows that the
mortality from smallpox in the epidemic
then just ceased was $50 per cent, in
the unvacCinated: in the vaccinated
with one VaCCinal scar it was 1872 per
cent, while the mortality among those
having five or more scars was 5.5 per
= cent.
} During 1876 the mortality among 1,S6f
vaccinated persons treated in the River
: side hospital, New York city, was 375
: while among the 405 patients who had
5 never been vaccinated, 200 died.
5 The speaker quoted from the Ameri-
can Textbook of the Theory and
5 Practice of Medicine, and read:
: "Tn Sweden the mortality from small
poX in the "a years before the intro.
duction, of vaccination, was 2,050 pei
= one million annually; after vaccination
t 1853 per one million. Drysdale says OF
t Berlin that the mortality of that city
during the epidemic of 1928 rose t
+ 243 and 262 respectively per 100000 in
S habitants. ThereupOn vaccination il
t the first year of life was made com
= pulsOry and revacCination in the Twelfth
= year Of life, with the result that in tn,
= first year of enforcement QS75) tn
mortality fell to 36 per cent per 100,
s 600; 81 in the year 1876 to 8 in 1877, anC
# so on for succeeding years down to 1888
It with the average of IL per 100000.
k The nearly absolute protection o
- vaccination is shown again by com
: pairing the cities in which vaccination
e and revaccination are obligatory anC
o. IL,
e reports of the Berlin health office, tn
e mortality Of smallpox per 100000 in
n habtants in 1888 was in Dresden 0. il
e Berlin o. in London 6, in Munich Ia
in Hamburg 3.5S, in Paris 9, in ST
5, Petersburg 1873, in Vienna 26,15, il
p Prague 55.49.
II Army statistics are specially valu
e able from their accuracy Schultz
II shows that since the operation of tn
II German law the annual average o
# cases of smallpox per 100000 was in tn
e army of Germany 4.94, of France 1897
of Austria 374. During the Franco
If German war 0S70-7D the mortality o
4, smallpox in the unvaccinated Frenc
h army was 23, 469, while that of the vac
g cinated German army was but 261.
v 1.-THE degree of protection independen
I. Of vaccination is determined to
It considera BILE extent by the operation
d and by the quality of matter introduc
k ed. Thus, according to Marson, tn
IS average mortality of smallpox anon
,r all vaccinated persons is 5.24 per cent
lr while that of individuals shown
= perfect cicatrices is .5 per cent"
VI l also quote from Cyclopaedia o
d Diseases of Children, by Dr. William A
Edwards.
e "Blyth concludes from a study o
u statistics that the mortality of all age
y in Vaccinated community will be
a per cent while in a community unVac
It cinated it will be 40 per cent
"A striking example of the effects Q
j. vaccination on the mortality of small
n poX is furnished by the record of death
n from smallpox in Madras, India; a
20 shown in paper by Sir William Moore
Ie The average mortality from smallpo
l. at Madras from 1871 to 1884 was Las