. The wonderful century [microform] : its successes and its failures. Science; Nineteenth century; Vaccination; Civilization, Modern; Sciences; Dix-neuvième siècle; Vaccination; Civilisation moderne. â W' 290 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. XVIII. iji ru. â¢5 < m: residence. Such were referred to, in the Report of the Local Government Board for 1882 (p. 300), as constitut- ing the bulk of the thirty-five thousand of defaults, under the headingâ" Ilenioved, not to be traced, or otherAvise accounted ; One of the Commission's official witnesses, Dr. Mac- Cabe, Medical Commissioner
. The wonderful century [microform] : its successes and its failures. Science; Nineteenth century; Vaccination; Civilization, Modern; Sciences; Dix-neuvième siècle; Vaccination; Civilisation moderne. â W' 290 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. XVIII. iji ru. â¢5 < m: residence. Such were referred to, in the Report of the Local Government Board for 1882 (p. 300), as constitut- ing the bulk of the thirty-five thousand of defaults, under the headingâ" Ilenioved, not to be traced, or otherAvise accounted ; One of the Commission's official witnesses, Dr. Mac- Cabe, Medical Commissioner for Ireland, distinctly affirms this. He says (2d Report, Q. 3073) that he for- merly had charge of the Dublin district, and that *' out of a population of a quarter of a million, 100,000 live in tenement-houses, that is to say, houses that are let out in sinule rooms for the accommodation of a familv. It is amongst that class, to a very great extent, that the de- faulters exist. The relicA^ng officer, when ho goes to the tonement-dwelliiig where the birtli occurred, finds that the parents have gone to some other tenement-dwelling and there is no trace of them. . A great number of these <lefaults occur in this ; Xow weekly tenants do not live in the best and most sanitary parts of towns, and the records of every epi- demic siiow that such insanitary districts have an enor- mously greater ])roportion of the small-pox deaths than the healthier districts. Yet the Commissioners declare that there is " absolutely no difference between the va â¢- cinated and the unvaccinated " except in respect of vac- cination. Again we stand amazed at a statement so contrary to the fact. But the Commissioners must of course have believed it to be tnie, or they would not put it in their " Final Report," upon which legislation may be founded affecting the liberties and the lives of their fellow-countrymen. I submit to my readers with confidence that this sta
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