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Amongst Unvaccinated Persons.
Mortality.
Under 5 years of age.
55.38 per cent.
Above „
41.48
To this I may add my own experience on two separate occasions: at one time,
whilst in charge of an Infectious' Hospital in the Public Service, and 10 years subsequently,
in private practice.
(Public Practice.) No. of Small-pox cases attended
400
,, No. of Vaccinated Persons
398
,, No. of Vaccinated Deaths
nil.
,, No. of Unvaccinated Deaths
2
Balance in favour of vaccination 99.5 per cent.
(Private Practice.) No. of Small-pox cases attended
100
,, No. said to have been vaccinated
97
,, No. of Deaths (three unvaccinated)
4
Balance in favour of vaccination 96 per cent.
CLASS II.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
In this class, Gout was fatal twice. Dropsy and Cancer, both outward and visible
signs of inward Disease affecting the general economy, each ten times. The three gave a
death-rate of .2 per thousand.
The "Tubercular" or "Consumptive" Maladies carried off 118 persons; "Phthisis"
or "Consumption" destroying 92 of all ages; Scrofula, Mesenteric disease, and " Water
on the Brain making up the total. The constitutional death-rate amounted to 4.2 per
thousand. The tubercular death-rate was 3.5 per thousand, and its child-rate 1.02 per
thousand.
III.—Local Diseases. Under this division, the various generally known and
dreaded affections of the several vital organs of the human frame are ranged. 260 of
these deaths were tabulated. Brain Diseases of all kinds, amongst young and old, gave
104 deaths. Heart Diseases 19, Diseases of the Organs of Respiration 103, of the
Digestive Organs 20, of the Secretory and Locomotor Organs, 14.
The Local death-date was 7.8 per thousand, and its child-rate 4.3.
IV.—Developmental Diseases. These, which affect children, adults and aged
persons at the three lite climacterics, and persons of all ages and impaired vital stamina,
cost 133 lives: 21 premature births were fatal, nine children died in "teething," 2 from