The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 39
Dr. C. Spinzig, St. Louis, U.S.A
Dr. C. Spinzig, St. Louis, U.S.A.
It is believed that vaccination was never more generally resorted to by our citizens, than during the winter of 1871 and 1872. *
To convey an idea what commonly the course of small-pox at Philadelphia has been, the figures of the mortality of this disease,
commencing with the year 1860, are therefore here represented. The years of the epidemic, 1871 and 1872, when vaccination and revaccination was carried to an extent never before paralleled at Philadelphia, exhibit the highest rate of small-pox cases since 1807.
* Report of Board of Health, 1872, p. 87.
1860 | 57 |
1861 | 758 |
1862 | 264 |
1863 | 171 |
1864 | 260 |
1865 | 524 |
1866 | 144 |
1867 | 48 |
1868 | 48 |
1869 | 6 |
1870 | 9 |
1871 | 1,879 |
1872 | 2,585 |
—Front Variola, its Causes, Nature, and Prophylaxis. P. 57. 1880.
* Report of Board of Health, p. 121.