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the administration of medicine or any other remedy for 

 a disease, the conditions are different. The doctor ap- 

 plies the remedy and watches the result, and if he has a 

 large practice he thereby obtains knowledge and experi- 

 ence which no other persons possess. But in the case of 

 vaccination, and especially in the case of public vaccina- 

 tors, the doctor does not see the result except by acci- 

 dent. Those who get small-pox go to the hospitals, or 

 are treated by other medical men, or may have left the 

 district; and the relation between the vaccination and 

 the attack of small-pox can only be discovered by the 

 accurate registration of all the cases and deaths, with the 

 facts as to vaccination or revaccination. When these 

 facts are accurately registered, to determine what they 

 teach is not the business of a doctor but of a statistician, 

 and there is much evidence to show that doctors are bad 

 statisticians, and have a special faculty for misstating 

 figures. This allegation is so grave and so fundamental 

 to the question at issue that a few facts must be given 

 in support of it. 



. The National Vaccine Establishment, supported by 

 Government grants, issued periodical Eeports, which 

 were printed by order of the House of Commons; and 

 in successive years we find the following statements: 



Tii 1812, and again in 1818, it is stated that " previous 

 to the discovery of vaccination the average number of 

 deaths by small-pox within the (London) Bills of Mor- 

 tality was 2000 annually; whereas in the last year only 

 751 persons have died of the disease, although the in- 

 crease of population within the last ten years has been 

 133,139." 



The number 2000 is about the average small-pox 



