CHAP. xvm. VACCINATION A DELUSION. 263 



tion not having been reported than on their not hav- 

 ing been effected.' 7 (Sixth Report, p. 754, 1st col., 

 3d par.) 



The plain and obvious teaching of the facts embodied 

 in this diagram is that small-pox mortality is in no way 

 influenced (except it be injuriously) by vaccination, but 

 that here, as elsewhere, it does bear an obvious relation 

 to density of population; and also that, when unin- 

 fluenced by vaccination, it follows the same law of de- 

 crease with improved conditions of general health as does 

 the total death-rate. 



This case of Sweden alone affords complete proof of 

 the uselessness of vaccination; yet the Commissioners in 

 the " Final Report " (par. 59) refer to the great diminu- 

 tion of small-pox mortality in the first twenty years of 

 the century as being due to it. They make no compari- 

 son with the total death-rate; they say nothing of the in- 

 crease of small-pox from 1824 to 1874; they omit all 

 reference to the terrible Stockholm epidemics increasing 

 continuously for fifty years of legally enforced vaccina- 

 tion and culminating in that of 1874, which was far 

 worse than the worst known in London during the whole 

 of the eighteenth century. Official blindness to the 

 most obvious facts and conclusions can hardly have a 

 more striking illustration than the appeal to the case of 

 Sweden as being favorable to the claims of vaccination. 



My next diagram (No. VI.) shows the course of small- 

 pox in Prussia since 1816, with an indication of the epi- 

 demics in Berlin in 1864 and 1871. Dr. Seaton, in 

 1871, said to the Committee on Vaccination (Q. 5608), 

 " I know Prussia is well protected," and the general 

 medical opinion was expressed thus in an article in the 



