Vaccination a Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime: Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal CommissionWallace, Alfred Russel
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Vaccination a Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime: Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal Commission
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Vaccination
The portion relating to Small-pox agrees with Diagram D, p. 129, in the
Third Report of the Commission, but comes to a later date. The figures
for the Stockholm epidemics are not given in the Reports of the Royal
Commission except as regards the last and greatest of them. The others
are from the same authority as in my former diagram—Dr. Berg, head of the
Statistical Department at Stockholm, who supplied them to Dr. Pierce as
stated in his _Vital Statistics_.
The Upper line, showing the death-rate from all causes, is from the
five-year average mortality, and is on a smaller vertical scale (as
shown by the figures at the sides) in order to bring it into the same
diagram.]
[Illustration: DIAGRAM VI.
Small-pox death-rates in Prussia ——————
Epidemics in Berlin ------
From the figures appended to the diagram opposite p. 232 of the Second
Report, and the Berlin epidemics from the table at p. 231 of the same
Report.]
[Illustration: DIAGRAM VII.
BAVARIA. MORTALITY FROM SMALL-POX AND OTHER ZYMOTIC DISEASES IN THE YEARS
1858-73.
From Tables in the Second Report, pp. 337-8.
Bavaria is chosen by Dr. Hopkirk to show the advantages of compulsory
vaccination (see Q. 1489, p. 11, and Table facing p. 238, of Second
Report).]
[Illustration: DIAGRAM VIII.
SHOWING THE DEATH-RATES PER MILLION LIVING BY SMALL-POX AND ZYMOTIC
DISEASES, FROM 1838 TO 1896, IN LEICESTER.
The dotted line shows the percentage of Vaccinations to Births.
N.B.—Before 1862 private vaccinations have been estimated.
The Upper Thick line shows the death-rate from the following
diseases:—Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Typhus, Whooping Cough,
Enteric and other Fevers.
The Lower Line, shaded for distinctness, shows the Small-pox death-rate.
Drawn from Mr. Thomas Biggs’ Table 19, at p. 440 of the Fourth Report,
kindly continued by Mr. Biggs to 1896.]
[Illustration: DIAGRAM IX.
THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS VARIOUS DEATH-RATES IN LEICESTER, IN FIVE-YEAR
AVERAGES.
The dotted line shows the percentage of vaccinations to total births.
_Authorities._
The three Death-rates and the Vaccinations are from Table 34 (p. 450) in
the Fourth Report.
The Small-pox death-rate is from Table 45 (p. 461) in same Report.
Figures to continue the diagram to 1896 have been kindly furnished by Mr.
Biggs from official sources.]
[Illustration: DIAGRAM X.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The upper portion of this diagram shows the Infant Mortality of London
from 1730 to 1830, from Dr. Farr’s tables in McCulloch’s _Statistical
Account of the British Empire_, vol. ii., p. 543 (1847). From 1840 to
1890 shows the Infant Mortality of ENGLAND calculated from the Reports of
the Registrar-General (see 3rd Report, p. 197, Table O). Materials for
the continuation of Dr. Farr’s London Table (under 5 years) are not given
by the Registrar-General.
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