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INDEX. 



Vaccination, how it affects the 



poor, 234 

 can only be proved useful 



by statistics, 235 

 marks not permanent, 238 

 marks hidden by eruption, 



238 

 proved useless by modern 



hospital statistics, 242 

 in England 1872-95, 254 

 on the Continent, 259 

 iii Stockholm from 1810, 261 

 in Stockholm not especially 



deficient, 262 

 false assertions as to value 



of, 266 



uselessness of, proved, 267 

 and small-pox in Leicester, 



272 

 and infant mortality in 



Leicester, 272 

 injuries from increased 



death-rate, 273 

 disasters at Sliorncliffe Camp 



concealed, 292 

 increases liability to small- 

 pox, 298 



Vacher, Dr., on registration of 

 vaccinated and unvaccinated, 

 237 



Variolous test, fallacy of, 216 

 Vegetables, scarcity of, in Lon- 

 don in eighteenth century, 319 

 Velocity of light, measurement 



of, 61 



Vestiges of creation, 137 

 Vogt, Prof. A., on vaccination 

 increasing small-pox, 268 

 no immunity from a pre- 

 vious attack of small-pox, 



Vortex-theory of matter, 108 



W 



Wallace on species, 139 



on survival of the fittest, 140 

 personal test of phrenology, 



Want and wealth increase to- 

 gether, 366, 382 



Warrington and Leicester small- 

 pox, 276 



War, the vampire of, 332-37 



Wars of the century all dynastic, 



Wealth, cause of unequal dis- 

 tribution of, 345 



increasing rate of increase 



of, 365 



Webb, Mr. James, on Terrier's 

 confirmation of phrenological 

 organs, 188 

 Wedderburn, Sir William, on 



Indian misgoverument, 377 

 Wit and mathematics, 176 

 Whitelead-making deadly, 355 

 Whooping-cough in London, 250 

 Wonderful Century, name justi- 

 fied, 156 



Zero of temperature, absolute, 



58 

 Zymotics diseases and sanitation, 



146 

 Zymotic diseases in London, 250 



in Leicester, 272 

 Zymotics in bills of mortality, 



245 



