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ing 333 cases, 104, or 31.1 per cent, were
vaccinated, and 229, or 68.8 per cent, were not
vaccinated. The population of London, at all ages,
contains about 3,620,000 persons who are vaccinated
and 190,000 who are not vaccinated. The death rate
in the vaccinated class was 28 per million of the vaccinated
population, and the death rate in the unvaccinated
class was 1,205 per million of the unvaccinated
population, or forty-three times as great as that of the
vaccinated. It is assumed by the opponents of
vaccination, that the whole of the non stated cases are
really vaccinated, and that the fact is concealed to save
the credit of vaccination. As 34.5 per cent, of these
non stated cases were under 5 years age, when som e
documentary evidence of vaccination could be produced
if the operation had been successfully performed, and
23.9 per cent, were between 5 and 20 years, making
58.4 per cent, under 20 years of age, when in most
cases the fact of the patients having been vaccinated or
not could he easily determined, there can be little
doubt that most of them were not vaccinated and that
the information was witheld to avoid prosecution for
non-observance of the law. However if all these 142 not
stated cases had been vaccinated, the death rate in the
vaccinated would be only 68 against 1,205 in the uncaccinated.
It is further asserted that some of those