Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...stay was not known, but of the number were a great many children of a few months to a few years (residence). The greater number of the vaccinated dwelt in houses called estalagens, situated in those quarters where the pestilence is wont to break out with most violence, as at Cidade Nova, etc., in the centre of commerce, and on the sea-board from the flat of Santa Lucia to Botofogo. "During the epidemic season a great number of those vaccinated were seized with yellow fever, but of a benign form. The number of persons non-vaccinated who died of the fever during the past epidemic numbered 650. On the other hand, seven of those vaccinated figured among the deceased, and of those there is grave doubt as to the true diagnosis in some cases. But, even admitting that the seven deaths were from the malady, the ratio per cent. would be very favourable, since it would be only 1.6 per cent. In some of the estalagens, where I vaccinated nearly all the occupants, all of them escaped during the epidemic; those only who refused to be vaccinated succumbed to the fatal malady. Likewise, in a great number of houses inhabited by vaccinated as well as by non-vaccinated persons, the latter only were fatally attacked, whereas the vaccinated were attacked very mildly, or were completely spared. To recapitulate: --From October 1883 to the present time (June 1884) 650 non-vaccinated persons died, and, during the same period, at most seven vaccinated succumbed to the fever. These 650 deaths refer to individuals who were placed in identical conditions with the 418 vaccinated. Ages of nonvaccinated who died of yellow fever during the epidemic, 1883-4: --From 16 to 30 years, 353; from 45 to 60 years, 36; from 30 to 45 years, 158; over 60 years, 5; from 1 to 15 years, 88; no age give...