. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. he words of thehistorian, The disease ran riot over the town, feastingon all who were susceptible to its poison.—Dr. Tonerin publications of Mass. Med. Soc., 1866, vol. ii. In 1730, with a population of 15,000 people, 4,000 weresick, and about 500 died. A vessel from London, withsmall-pox on board, was wrecked in 1751 near Nahaut,and spread the disease again, and there w^ere 7,653 cases,and 545 deaths. It broke out in the American army atCambridge in 1776, and Dr
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. he words of thehistorian, The disease ran riot over the town, feastingon all who were susceptible to its poison.—Dr. Tonerin publications of Mass. Med. Soc., 1866, vol. ii. In 1730, with a population of 15,000 people, 4,000 weresick, and about 500 died. A vessel from London, withsmall-pox on board, was wrecked in 1751 near Nahaut,and spread the disease again, and there w^ere 7,653 cases,and 545 deaths. It broke out in the American army atCambridge in 1776, and Dr. Waterhouse wrote, Therewere scarcely enough men free from it, or not liable totake it, to keep guard at the different hospitals. After the introduction of vaccination the mortalityfrom small-pox in Boston was as follows, so far as therecords can be obtained : Deaths. From 1811 to 1820 6 From 1821 to 1830 8 From 1831 to 1840 214 From 1841 to 1850 534 Deaths. From 1851 to 1860 732 From 1861 to 1870 500 From 1871 to 1880 1,094 From 1881 to 1887 18 Small-pox in Boston before the Introduction of Years Increase Mather. 2 Report of Sanitary Commission, 1850. > Websters History of Pestilence. * Charlestons Records. 5 Felt, Annals of Salem. e Population changeable: years of war. 525 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Small-pox in Boston after Introduction of Vaccination. d 3 0,c Cm O CM & ft °° ag a S - OS uai? | ft i S3 11 Deaths fromsmall-pox. Death-rateper 1,000 in-habitants. 1811 . 33,000 2 1850. 136,881 192 1812. 1851. 63 i 1813. 1852. 12 1814. 1853. 6 1815. 4 1854. 118 1816. 1855. 160,490 132 1817, 1856 78 1818. 2 1819. 1858. 3 1820. 43,298 1859. 156 1821. I860. 177,840 162 1822. 1861. 7 1823. 1862. 13 1824. 1 1863. 11 0 06 1825. 58,277 1 1864. 113 1826. 1865. 115 1827. 3 1866. 51 1828. TS 2
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