Proving Vaccination to be Both Useless and Dangerous
(1.)–It is shown that the death-rate of Small-pox patients is greatest in the first year of life, then diminishes gradually to between the 15th and 20th year, and then rises again to old age; thus following exactly the same law as the general mortality.
(2.)–The Small-pox death-rate, among over 2,000 cases, was 17.85 per cent. of the cases, closely agreeing with the general average. That of the unvaccinated was 23.20 per cent., while that of the vaccinated was only 15.61 per cent.
(3.)–This result, apparently so favourable to vaccination, is shown to be wholly due to the excess of the unvaccinated in the first two years of life,13 and to be a purely numerical fact entirely unconnected with vaccination. This is proved as follows:–Taking, first, all the ages above 2 years, the death-rates of the vaccinated is 13.76, and of the unvaccinated 13.15,–almost exactly the same, but with a slight advantage to the unvaccinated.
Alfred Russel Wallace 1885.
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