1) Vaccination optional, 1847-53
|
305
|
82, or 26.8%
|
117, or 38.8%
|
305
|
1) Vaccination optional, 1847-53
|
2) Vaccination obligatory, but not efficiently
enforced, 1854-71
|
223
|
109, or 48.8%
|
39, or 20.7%
|
188
|
2) Vaccination obligatory, but not efficiently
enforced, 1854-67
|
3) Vaccination obligatory, but more
efficiently enforced, 1872-87
|
114
|
149
|
3) Vaccination obligatory, but more
efficiently enforced, 1868-87
|
Fascinatingly, all
other infectious diseases, without any exception, decreased during this period, contributing to the falling mortality rates in Britain, a lot of them by larger
percentage than smallpox. Moreover, except smallpox, none of those infectious diseases were confronted by any
inoculations and/or vaccines. The below
table will better illustrate the point:
Table 3. Mortality compared, Smallpox with Fever
Group (Typhus, Typhoid, and Simple and Ill-defined) for the Two periods, 1838-42 and 1871-75 (Milnes,1897).