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It caused 110 deaths in the summer, and 592 deaths in
the winter quarter of 1876 in London; 2,544 deaths in
1877, being most fatal in the first quarter; and 1,416 in
1878.
Dr. Wm. Gay ton, in his report as Medical Superintendent
of the Homerton Small-pox Hospital, gives the
statistics of 6,553 cases of small-pox admitted into that
Hospital from February 1st, 1871, to December 31st, 1878,
by which the following facts are shown:—
Class. Mortality.
Vaccinated—good marks 3.32 per cent.
„ imperfect ditto 11-10 „
„ said to be, but without
marks 27.23 „
Unvaccinated 45.76 ,,
The above are the results, taking both sexes and all
ages; but among the unvaccinated, the mortality is affected
by age as follows:—
Class. Mortality.
Unvaccinated, under 5 years of age 55.38 per cent.
„ over „ „ . 41.48 „
so that more than half of the unvaccinated children under
5 years of age, who were admitted with small-pox,
died.
Or, to give the actual numbers, no less than 455 confessedly
unvaccinated children under 5 years of age were
admitted with small-pox, and of these, 252 died.
Whereas there were only 48 cases of vaccinated children
under 5 years of age, with good marks, and not one of them
died; and, indeed, of the 211 cases of children under 10
years of age who had good marks only one died.
To show how the number of marks affect the mortality,
I have compiled the following table from Dr. Grayton's
results:—