New-York tribune., 1901-12-09
CENTURY OF VACCINATION.
DR.. FLOYD NJ. CRANDALL SETS FORTH
THE REMARKABLE RESULTS
ATTAINED.

90 vaccination, the revival OF the Anti
Vaccination Society here. and the somewhat alarm
ing increase this winter In the number OF smallpox
victims In New-York, Boston and other Eastern
cities. the information contained in DR. Floyd NJ
CrgndaIPs article entitled "A Century Of Vaccina-
tien" published in the issue of American Medi-
cine which makes its appearance to-day, Is OF
timely and popular interest. DR.. Crandall says:
People have become apathetic with regard to
vaccination, which in many communities IS mucn ln
less thoroughly carried out than it was hundred
With fun kn9wledge of Of the serious sf
the marvellous efcacy Of vaccination the operation
then extensively and thoroughly performed and
rpats In Denmark for sxamRe m @ the saTs praches ba
not been a case of smallpox for eleven years. 1t
Mas then retntrodueed by & travsler from roId liam m
average of 2.oi5 deaths year to 4S0. In EieSna
averaged Sss HsaT After the enthusiastic intro
duction of vacci1ation in 1901 the deaths fell during
speeriReiy sIe iPeI 'o''0"i's years 10 i''' ''
The first vaccination in America was performed
house. professor OF practice Of physic at Harvard;
the vaccinations being successful Shortly after
ward three of the children we're sent to The small
pox- None of the three, it is needless TO say con-
York was performed by DR.. Seaman. in May, 1901.
The operation was introduced into the Southern
States through the personal efforts OF Thomas JEFF
ferson. then President, who fully understood the
To comprehend what vaccination has done for
the world We must understand what smallpox was
extreme conta gousness. its excessive of
taitys It's IOdthS0me character ana the manning
and disagreement it left behind combined TO make
II the most serious scourge from which the race
runnins' cnnnfres and 5estroyins whole nonnIa-
tions." When Jenner performed his first vaccina-
ton in 1856, smallpox causing one-tenth of all
mathematician. estimated that than 60.oeo.oO0
ef the inhabitants of Europe died from smallpox
of 10000 year. Others place the number even
Cowan's Vital statistics OF GLASGOW He states that
between 17sS and 1872 Sc per of all the deaths
tween 1898 and 1872 % per cent We're due to that
cause Ihese are no uncommon hgures' for Il was
under ten years were due to smallpox It was esti-
stroyed or disigured the fourth part of mankind.
w the sPanad hf spT m M ded within nfG %
years al IN y IS 20 per cent Of the people of GTeeI 1
Population Of o5 ied ed if in IN ssie Tea It i
believed that 6,oooOn North American Indians fell
the Of s s than an
enormous. whole tribes being exterminated
among half civilized nations the appearance of
towns sick being left to their fate The cap-
ant or avera TSS Years a after tmf Fsfa
ton of the disease In the present century Cerea,
aon OF @ ere we're T sspgx . M gcm md in
Among civilized nations the ravages were. almost
from the peasant to the king 1t wrought wholesale
land and Austria When Louis XIV of France died
., sInalpoS the corpse vas deserted By every one
forced to perform the last rites The disease had
naiionf ef m ~ nor o1y ny upon me hst9rg Of
sts of life Of the people anu ''"'-
widely spread disease Which ee aeeted the ehf uman
race To-day many physicians of large experience |
nave never seen case. Communities of thousands !;
OF inha bitants pass months and years without
read history without believing that some marvel |
11ns power has been at work to produce this change
II will surprise 1 many to know that in former
hood. over 50 per of ali cases occurring in |
eharen hia under fve years As vaccination is done
5 5roof OF ITS sfheacy that The occurrence Of the
adult life. when immunity has been exhausted
Let US now consider the history of smallpox since
items In England it has been estimated that in |
from smallpox was za Dr. Farp pesS esated mRe fRe
rate IEsse million 1850 for the thirty years from
began in is From tRat 05 year she to I
million was eso From 9 TO 'ns s eod ra5e q
en3oned Eaccina ton, the rate for the whole period
an s the rate was Sc Excluding the epidemic Of |
M the average death % rate from @ ing
Erltlsh army per 100000 strength Ill: for
dered even higher py the loss in 1889 of twenty
four mo there were m S % ro o
1a,id n donSon S With less than onefourth that popu
century rsTy the the annual m smallpox death rate of London
Sweden furnishes some particularly valuable |
facts for excellent records have been kept since |
mortality & million living was 2Oi5 During fifteen
rars oraS ,T ' & OF optional raoeination the av
years OF compulsory vaccination il averaged Ia
record can obtainl under s3iIi 10 more rfgid AVS
sheIe hene was no year IN which the rate million
twsnty-eight years before 1901 the rate was over
the u Of M yesf Since resShnf 3 II has in ns9 S
m neiew loe IN foTtsix different years and below 10
Artempt has been made by anti-vaccina tionists
by TIE theory that there was natural decline in |
Sinsilpcx before vaccination had been adopted. |
The facts are. however that vaccination was taken
up IN Sweden with the utmost enthusiasm. 1t is |
kneTn a rnat IN 1902 eighty physicians had lymph in
S.nsion All 5E means Of the pastors Of Churches while
ported 2e vaccinations II ceaaigv arenT reoTes
great creduty to believe that the rapid fall in the
in the character of the disease
, Prussia also affords some most convincing evil
army was the first place where vaccination
during the next Fourteen years there We're re- but sr
enty-seven cases of smallpox and varoloid and not
one death In 1ssS an epidemic of smallpox
Cured in Prussia. but the army there We're only
twelve cases During the Franco-Cierman War the
well vaccinated. and but 45s deaths occurred from
srrny, on the other hand, though smaller in size
there were % 100 deaths from that disease. 1t should
making Up the German army of that time We're not
Sc thor,oughy vaocins'ed as were those of Prussia
Pensh Pqe s were vastly better vaccinated than the
Since 1874 a much more rigid vaccination law has
been in force III Germany. Vaccination of all in
fants is made compulsory. with reyaccination of
all at school age The mean death rate from small
pox per million before this law sos, Since the
sS m the it arv na BEEN m 6 I during ing the last ten
law is most rigidly enforced there has been but
rate has never raised materially since that year
The cases that have occurred have been largely
These figures from Prussia have given the anti
avs peen be 10 @ them Of n spirit M They
untruth. in asserting that the law of 1885 was a
vaccination. but did not make it com
pulsory. Such law was passed only in 1874. The
ninisheG death rate here as in Sweden, upon the