Yet one more official misstatement. About the year 1884 the National Health Society, with the approval of the Local Government Board, issued a tract entitled _Facts concerning Vaccination for Heads of Families_, in which appeared the statement, “_Before the introduction of vaccination, small-pox killed 40,000 persons yearly in this country._” We have already shown that Dr. Lettsom’s figure, 36,000, was utterly unfounded, and probably three or four times greater than the truth. Here we have a semi-official and widely-distributed statement even more remote from the truth. In later issues of the same tract this particular statement is withdrawn, and a different but equally erroneous one substituted. Thus: “Before its discovery (vaccination) _the mortality from small-pox in London was forty times greater than it is now_.” This is an altogether vague and misleading statement. If it means that in _some_ years of the last century it was forty times greater than in _some_ years of this century, it is misleading, because even within the last thirty years some years have a mortality not only forty but eighty and even 200 times as great as others. (In 1875 there were ten deaths per million, while in 1871 there were 2,420 deaths per million.) If it means on an average of say twenty years, it is false. For the twenty years 1869-98 the mortality was about 300 per million, while for the last twenty years before the discovery of small-pox it was about 2,000 per million, or less than _seven_ times as much instead of _forty_ times! This same tract is full of other equally gross misstatements. It tells us, in large, black type, “_With due care in the performance of the operation, no risk of any injurious effects from it need be feared._” The Registrar-General himself shows us that this is false in his Report for 1895, Table 17, p. lii.: COW-POX AND OTHER EFFECTS OF VACCINATION Year. Deaths. 1881 58 1882 65 1883 55 1884 53 1885 52 1886 45 1887 45 1888 45 1889 58 1890 43 1891 43 1892 58 1893 59 1894 50 1895 56 An average of 52 children officially murdered every year, and officially acknowledged, is termed “alleged injury,” which need not be feared! And these cruel falsehoods are spread broadcast over the country, and the tract bears upon its title-page— [_Revised by the Local Government Board, and issued with their sanction_].