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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]

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Table: The Disease and Death Rate of the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Population of the Invaded Houses contrasted.

The Disease and Death Rate of the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Population of the Invaded Houses contrasted.

Sub-District.Disease Rate per 1000 of population.Death Rate per 1000 of population.
North SheffieldVaccinated720
Unvaccinated908400
Sheffield ParkVaccinated700
Unvaccinated1000666
South SheffieldVaccinated1520
Unvaccinated708417
West SheffieldVaccinated863
Unvaccinated912412
EcclesallVaccinated843
Unvaccinated820333
Nether HallamVaccinated720
Unvaccinated886229
AttercliffeVaccinated694
Unvaccinated710333
BrightsideVaccinated812
Unvaccinated1000469

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The preceding figures have been introduced with the
object of estimating the value of vaccination in protecting
the vaccinated from attack, even when exposed to the intense
and continuous infection of an invaded house. In pursuance
of the object of this enquiry let us now consider the relative
severity of the disease when contracted by the vaccinated
and unvaccinated, still confining our attention to children
under the age of ten years. In the Borough Hospital,
Winter Street, Sheffield, the cases of the vaccinated class admitted
were all of a mild type, whilst 81 per cent. of the unvaccinated
who had contracted the disease suffered from it in
a severe form. In the Sheffield Union Workhouse Hospital,
whilst 12 per cent. of the vaccinated were severe cases, the
same might be said of 64 per cent. of the unvaccinated. But
perhaps the most significant view of relative severity among
vaccinated and unvaccinated is that supplied by the death