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Of the persons thus attacked, 228 were unvaccinated, or a
percentage of 63.7.
It is not open to doubt that this was greatly in excess of the
percentage of unvaccinated persons under 10 years of age in
London or in any part of it.
Turning now to the statistics of Small-Pox in London
hospitals supplied by Dr. Gayton and Mr. Sweeting, we find that
the percentage of unvaccinated persons treated in the Homerton
Hospital was 20.8; the numbers being 2,169, out of 10,403. Of
children under 10 years of age the number of unvaccinated
admitted was 1,187, out of 2493, or 47.6 percent.
At the Fulham Hospital 358 was the number of admissions
of unvaccinated persons, out of a total of 2,584, the percentage
being 13.8.
Out of the total number of 370 children under 10 years of age
admitted to the hospital 168, or 45.4 per cent., were-unvaccinated.
It will be remembered that all those who were said to be vaccinated,
even if they showed no marks of it, were excluded from
the unvaccinated class.
When these figures are examined they show a proportion of
unvaccinated persons, especially children, admitted to the hospital
which it is impossible to believe corresponded with the proportion
of unvaccinated persons existing in the population of London or
of any district of it.
It has been suggested that the inmates of these hospitals
were drawn from the poorer class of the population, and that in
that class there would be a larger proportion of unvaccinated
persons than in the population at large. This, probably, is so
to some extent. But it seems to us quite inadequate as an
explanation of the very large proportion of unvaccinated children
admitted to the hospitals. When the returns of vaccination in
London are examined it will be seen that the children not finally