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estate at Joyce Green. That hospital is to be known as the Orchard
Hospital. Also early in the present year the extension was ordered
of the lower hospital at Gore Farm.
When all these emergency measures come into effect, the Board
will have as its available Small-pox resources some 3,200 beds.
All returns of mortality or infection from Small-pox among socalled
vaccinated persons tend to confuse the general public, who
consider the term "Vaccinated" as equivalent to protected. It is of
course nothing of the sort. The term includes an infant with four
fresh vaccination marks, in which child the protection is absolute, and
also an adult who was vaccinated 30 or 40 years back, in whom the
original protection has worn itself out. If all returns were made to
relate to children and persons who had been successfully vaccinated
or re-vaccinated within the past few years there would not be a scrap
of evidence in support of those who declare that Vaccination does not
protect; and if everybody in this country who has not been Vaccinated
within the last 10 years would consent to be re-vaccinated, the
present epidemic would be stopped in a fortnight. Such is the
protective power of comparatively recent vaccination. In connection
with the present outbreak the Registrar-General analysed the 300
fatal cases of Small-pox that were registered from the beginning of
the outbreak to the 11th of January, 1902, and showed that out of
those children and young persons under 20 years in the population
of London, who were not protected by vaccination, 100 have recently
died of Small-pox; whilst; only 4 deaths from that disease have
occurred among those of the same ages who were ascertained to have
been vaccinated in infancy.
The Statistical Committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
have also presented a Report upon the completed cases of Small-pox
treated in the Board's Hospitals during the year 1901. The Committee
pointed out that under 10 years of age there were only 12
vaccinated cases and no death, but there were 95 unvaccinated cases
of whom 52 died, a percentage of 54.74. Under 20 years of age
there were 161 vaccinated cases of whom 3 died, a percentage of 1.86,