Phillipines (1918-1920):
"We were fortunate enough to address their own
medical (and) health officials where we reminded
them of the incidence of smallpox in formerly
"immunized" Filipinos. We invited them to consult
their own medical records and asked them to correct
us if our own facts and figures disagreed. No such
correction has been forthcoming, and we can only
conclude that between 1918-1919 there were 112,549
cases of smallpox notified, with 60,855 deaths.
Systematic (mass) vaccination started in 1905, and
since its introduction case mortality increased
alarmingly. Their own records comment, that "The
mortality is hardly explainable."---Dr Kalokerinos
(Second Thoughts on Disease by Archie Kalokerinos
M.D. & Dr Dettman)
"In 1918, the US Army forced the
vaccination of 3,285,376 natives in the Philippines
when no epidemic was
brewing, only the sporadic cases of the usual
mild nature. Of the vaccinated persons, 47,369 came
down with smallpox, and of these 16,477 died.
In 1919 the experiment
was doubled. 7,670,252 natives were
vaccinated. Of these 65,180 victims came down with
smallpox, and 44,408 died. In the first experiment,
one-third died, and in the second, two-thirds of the
infected ones died. ----- from Dr. William Koch's
book, The Survival Factor in Neoplastic and Viral
Diseases."
"When the Philippines were taken over by the U.S.A.,
in 1898, they became a shop-window for the sale of
vaccine. They had had plenty of vaccination, of
course, under Spanish rule, but the Americans began
to clean the place up, and the smallpox figures took
a big dive, as might have been expected—and the
vaccinators took the big bows, as usual.
The sale of vaccine was enormous. The health reports
prove this—an account rendered for the taxpayers to
pay. When, however, the inevitable epidemic came, in
1918-20, it is worth noting that, out of a
population of 10,000,000, the huge total of 71,000
deaths was more than equalled by several other
epidemics during the same three years. Malaria took
93,000, influenza 91,000, tuberculosis 80,000, while
dysentery, cholera and typhus together took another
70,000. It will be seen, therefore, that, during one
of the very worst epidemics in all history, the
deaths from smallpox were well below 1 per cent of
the population. Yet we are always being told of the
millions of lives saved by the noble work of Jenner
and his prosperous followers."--Lionel Dole
England & Wales:
"In the Second Report of the Commission, pp. 219—20,
a witness declared that out of six persons who died
of small-pox and were reported by the medical
officer of the Union to have been unvaccinated, five
were found to have been vaccinated, one being a
child who bad been vaccinated by the very person who
made the report, and another a man who had been
twice revaccinated in the militia"-----ALFRED RUSSEL
WALLACE [Book 1898]
VACCINATION A DELUSION:
"Dr. Munk stated before the Hospital Commission,
that the percentage of vaccinated patients in the
London small-pox hospital had increased from 40
percent, in 1838 to 94.6 percent, in 1879 (3rd
Report of Royal Comm., Q. 9090). This evidence was
given in 1882; but Mr, Wheeler stated that according
to the Reports of the Highgate hospital, the
vaccinated patients had long been over 90 per cent
of the whole, and are now often even 94 or 95per
cent."-----ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898]
VACCINATION A DELUSION.
"In Notes on the Small-pox Epidemic at Birkenhead,
1877 (p. 9), Dr. F. Vacher says:
"Those entered as not vaccinated were admittedly
unvaccinated, or without the faintest mark.
The mere assertions of patients or their friends
that they were vaccinated counted for nothing."
Another medical official justifies this method of
making statistics as follows:
"I have always classed those as ‘unvaccinated,’ when
no scar, presumably arising from vaccination, could
be discovered. Individuals are constantly seen who
state that they have been vaccinated, but upon whom
no cicatrices can be traced. In a prognostic and a
statistic point of view, it is better, and, I think,
necessary, to class them as unvaccinated" (Dr.
Gayton’s Report for the Homerton. Hospital for
1871—2—3)."-----ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898]
VACCINATION A DELUSION
" When England was most vaccinated, it not only had
the greatest amount of smallpox, but most of its
smallpox cases in those days occurred amongst the
vaccinated.
The statistics of the
Highgate Smallpox Hospital show that in 1871, 91.5
per cent. of their cases had been vaccinated, and in
1881, out of a total of 491 cases, 470, or nearly 96
per cent., had been vaccinated. The Lancet for 23
February 1884, gives the facts about an outbreak in
Sunderland, where there were just 100 cases, and 96
of them had been vaccinated. On 27 August 1881, that
journal published an account of an outbreak at
Bromley, where 43 cases occurred, every one of them
vaccinated.
Mr. Alexander Wheeler submitted figures to the Royal
Commission on Vaccination (p. 204 of the
Commission’s Third Report) which show that from
1870-86 the Metropolitan Asylums Board treated
53,579 smallpox cases, of which 41,061 were
admittedly vaccinated, and 2,858 were put in the
class they called doubtfully vaccinated.
Sheffield, an unsanitary town, had a bad
smallpox epidemic in 1887-88. Of 7,066 cases classed
as vaccinated or unvaccinated, 5,891 or 83.4 per
cent were put in the vaccinated class.
Of 647 cases at Warrington,
in 1892-93, 601, or 89.2 per cent, had been
vaccinated; of 2,945 cases at Birmingham in 1892-93,
2,616, or 88.8 per cent, ad been vaccinated;
and of 828 cases at Willenhall in 1894, 739, or 89.3
per cent, had been vaccinated.
The last big outbreak of
genuine smallpox was in London in 1901-2, when, out
of almost 10,000 cases, some 7,000 had been
vaccinated."---- Lilly Loat [Book 1951] The Truth
About Vaccination and Immunization
Leeds:
"From the 29th January, 1872, to the 24th October,
1874, there have been 715 cases passed through the
Hospital, the particulars of which appear in the
ledger; out of the 715 cases there were 600
"vaccinated," and 115 "not vaccinated." Now, from
the immense pains taken to swell out the "not
vaccinated," by adding well authenticated cases of
vaccination, the unsuccessfully vaccinated, and the
certified unfit, it is not to be presumed the
medical officers would add to the "vaccinated" any
"not vaccinated," therefore the 600 are all fair and
bona-fide cases. On the other hand, how are the 115
"not vaccinated" reduced by deducting the
"vaccinated," the "unsuccessfully vaccinated," and
the "certified unfit," &c. I do not believe that of
the whole 115 cases entered "not vaccinated," after
deducting the three classes above mentioned, there
would be left 40 fair cases of "not
vaccinated."---JNO. PICKERING, F.S.S., F.R.G.S.
[1876.THE STATISTICS OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS TO THE
LEEDS SMALL-POX HOSPITAL EXPOSED AND REFUTED.]
The result of this prejudiced and unscientific
method of registering small-pox mortality is the
belief of the majority of the medical writers on the
subject that there is an enormous difference between
the mortality of the vaccinated and the
unvaccinated, and that the ifference is due to the
fact of vaccination or the absence of it."-----
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898] VACCINATION A
DELUSION
That such suppressio veri is no new thing, but has
been going on during the whole period of
vaccination, is rendered probable by a statement in
the Medical Observer of 1810, by Dr. Maclean. He
says: "Very few deaths from cowpox appear in the
Bills of Mortality, owing to the means which have
been used to suppress a knowledge of them. Neither
were deaths, diseases, and failures transmitted in
great abundance from the country, not because they
did not happen., but because some practitioners were
interested in not seeing them, and others who did
see them were afraid of announcing what they
knew.""----- ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book
1898] VACCINATION A DELUSION
Mr. Charles Fox, a medical man residing at Cardiff
has published fifty-six cases of illness following
vaccination, of which seventeen resulted in death.
In only two of these, where he himself gave the
certificate, was vaccination mentioned."----
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898] VACCINATION
A DELUSION
"Now, in the epidemic of 1871, 91.5 per cent. of the
cases admitted to the Highgate Hospital were
vaccinated, and at the same place in 1881, of 491
cases only twenty-one were not vaccinated, and this
at a time when certainly not more than 90 per cent.
of Londoners were "protected;" and, indeed, in an
outbreak at Bromley, comprising forty-three cases,
every one of the victims had been vaccinated and
three re-vaccinated, (Lancet, April 27,1881.) so
that it would seem, as regards the relative
incidence of small-pox, vaccination has very little
effect. If I wished to improve the occasion, after
Sir Lyon Playfair's example, I might quote Dr.
Browning, who gives particulars of 469 cases of
post-vaccinal small-pox, of whom ninety-nine died,
or 21.108 per cent. of whom he says, "many of these
sufferers showed good vaccine marks of the kind that
would be deemed worthy of an extra grant from the
Government Inspector, and yet they took
small-pox."William J. Collins, M.D., B.S., B.Sc.
1883
"I believed that vaccination prevented smallpox. I
believed that if it did not absolutely prevent it in
every case, it modified the disease in some cases,
and I believed that re-vaccination, if only frequent
enough, gave absolute immunity. Experience has
driven all that out of my head; I have seen
vaccinated persons get smallpox, and persons who had
been vaccinated get smallpox, and I have seen those
who had had smallpox get it a second time and die of
it."------Dr. J. C. Ward M.R.C.S. at Harrogate,
(England)
"Smallpox was on the way out, indeed epidemics
disappeared decades before the WHO decided to
conduct the final "eradication" campaign. It is also
well-documented that the largest epidemics occurred
in the most highly vaccinated populations, while
whose who were unvaccinated, did not have the same
epidemics."--Viera Scheibner
"During the epidemic of 1871, visiting the hospitals
and seeing in private practice that nine-tenths of
the small-pox cases were vaccinated."---Dr Allinson
"The increased deaths from these five causes, from
1855 to 1880, exceed the total deaths from Small-pox
during the same period! So that even if the latter
disease had been totally abolished by vaccination,
the general mortality would have been increased, and
there is much reason to believe that the increase
may have been caused by vaccination
itself."--Wallace
"Since the passing of the
Act in 1853 we have had no less than three distinct
epidemics. In 1857-9 we had more than 14,000 deaths
from smallpox; in the 1863-5 epidemic the deaths had
increased to 20,000; and in 1871-2 they totaled up
to the tune of 44,800."------Dr Hadwen MD (The Case
Against Vaccination ---an address at Gloucester on
Saturday, January 25th, 1896, during the Gloucester
Smallpox Epidemic)
"In the Metropolitan
Hospital 1870-1-2, it is acknowledged that out of
14,808 smallpox patients 11,174 had been
vaccinated."---Mr P.A. Taylor (Vacc Inq 5, p48)
"Thus far as regards the
utility of vaccination to the state; we have now to
consider its utility to the individual. Do the
vaccinated escape in an epidemic? or, if they do not
escape an attack of smallpox, do they escape death
from it? In answer to the first question, apart
from the familiar negative experience of everyone,
we have the statistics of smallpox hospitals, which
relate to the poorer class and probably do full
justice to the fact of non-vaccination, inasmuch as
the unvaccinated residue is mostly to be found in
those slums and tenements of the poor where smallpox
(now as always) is apt to linger. At the Eastern
Metropolitan Hospital (Homerton) from its opening
early in 1871 to the end of 1878 there were 6533
admissions for smallpox, of which 4283 had
vaccination marks, 793 had no marks although
vaccinated, and 1477 were unvaccinated, giving a
proportion of 0.29 unvaccinated. In the epidemic
hospitals of Liverpool, Glasgow, and Dublin the
proportion was 0.25 during the same period."---Dr.
Charles Creighton M.A., M.D. Encyclopedia
Britannica, published in 1888
USA:
"I have had in my own
experience one very small epidemic comprising 33
(smallpox) cases of which 29 had vaccination
histories and a good scar, and some of them
vaccinated within the last year. There was no
protection there. "---Dr. William Howard Hay
Italy:
"Italy is one of the best
vaccinated countries in the world, if not the best
of all, for twenty years before 1885, our nation was
vaccinated in the proportion of 98.5%.
Notwithstanding, the epidemics of smallpox that we
have had have been something so frightful that
nothing before the invention of vaccination could
equal them. During 1887, we had 16,249 deaths from
smallpox; in 1888- 18,110 and 1889,
13,413"------Chas Rauta, Professor of Hygiene and
Material Medical in the University of Perguia,
Italy.
Austria, Germany, Prussia:
"Notwithstanding the fact
that Prussia was the best re-vaccinated country in
Europe, its mortality from smallpox in the epidemic
of 1871 was higher (59,839) than in any other
northern state. "---Dr. Charles Creighton M.A.,
M.D. Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1888
"Examination shows
vaccination a complete failure. In this single year,
3,994 vaccinated people died of smallpox; the total
number attacked exceeded 29,000." (All were
vaccinated.)"---Dr. Kalb, Royal Examiner of
Statistics for Bavaria.
"Prussia had vaccination
laws ever since 1834 for the Army and 1835 for the
whole population. Yet in the two great epidemic
years, 1871-72, she lost no less than 124,948 of her
citizens. It may be objected that these may all of
them have been persons who had escaped vaccination.
But that objection is met by looking into the
returns for Berlin and other cities where the
vaccinal condition of the patients is given. Thence
we learn that in that epidemic in the City of Berlin
alone no less than 17,038 persons of all ages took
smallpox after vaccination, and 2,884 of them died.
Of these Berlin cases 2,240 were under ten years of
age, and no less than 736 of these children died. In
the period 1865 to 1874 there were 23,642 vaccinated
cases of smallpox in the city, 3,368 of them being
fatal. In the district of Krefeld, in the same 1871
epidemic, the record gives 118 cases, of which 117
had been vaccinated; and the unvaccinated one was a
baby under a year old, and therefore younger than
the German law could reach, seeing that the law left
it until the children were twelve months old.
There are similar records
for Wesel, Cologne, Mulheim on the Rhine, and
perhaps the most striking was that for Neuss, a town
with a population of a little under 10,000. Their
smallpox cases from 1865 to 1873 totalled 248,
without one unvaccinated man, woman or child to be
found amongst the lot. When the great epidemic
struck Bavaria in 1871, out of 30,742 cases the
vaccinal condition of which is stated, 29,429 had
been vaccinated."---- Lilly Loat [Book 1951] The
Truth About Vaccination and Immunization
"For some of the German
states the proportion of unvaccinated cases comes
out a good deal less than one-fourth ; thus, in
Bavaria in 1871 of 30,742 cases 29,429 were in
vaccinated persons, or 95.7 per cent., and 1313 in
the unvaccinated, or 4.3 .per cent (Majer,
Vierteljahrschrift fur gericht. Med., xxii. 355.).
In some of the small local outbreaks of recent
years the victims have been nearly all vaccinated
(e.g., at Bromley in 1881, a total of 43 cases,
including sixteen confluent, all vaccinated--
Nicolson, Lancet, 27th August 1881). In the army
and navy, where vaccination and re-vaccination are
absolutely without exception, the proportion is
accordingly 0. It would thus appear that the rather
excessive proportion of cases among the small
residue of unvaccinated in the civil population must
have other associated circumstances besides
non-vaccination; and these are not far to
seek.."---Dr. Charles Creighton M.A., M.D.
Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1888
"Back then I was working in
one of the oldest lung illness treatment centres in
Germany, and just by chance, I looked at the files
of those people who had fallen ill during the first
German epidemic of smallpox, in 1947...We had always
been told that the smallpox vaccination would
protect against smallpox. And now I could verify,
thanks to the files and papers, that all of those
who had fallen ill had been vaccinated. This was
very upsetting for me."---Dr Buchwald, M.D.
continued ~
"1. Vaccinated and
unvaccinated, re-vaccinated, and those who had
previously suffered from small-pox were alike
attacked; the overwhelming majority of the cases
were vaccinated, doubtless because, there are,
except in the first two years of life, many more
vaccinated than unvaccinated persons. 2. In the
first two years of life many more unvaccinated than
vaccinated children were attacked by small-pox,
because at that age there are many more unvaccinated
than vaccinated children. 3. The death-rate in the
first two years of life is in all cases the highest,
the death-rate in very advanced age alone excepted ;
still it was lower among the unvaccinated than among
the vaccinated children of this period of life.
4. If we set aside these two first years of life the
death-rate is nearly equal for vaccinated and
unvaccinated, but still somewhat less favourable to
the vaccinated. 5. If the mortality of the total
unvaccinated cases is higher in proportion than that
of the vaccinated, this is not to be ascribed to
non-vaccination, but only to the great proportion of
this large mortality occurring in the first years of
childhood. 6. The mortality in the different
periods of life follows, both with vaccinated and
unvaccinated, the ordinary law of mortality of the
human race in these respective periods, and
vaccination has no power to alter or affect this law
of nature. 7. Having due
regard to all these facts it appears that
vaccination is utterly worthless."----- Dr
Leander Joseph Keller, Head Physician of the
Imperial Austrian State-Railway Company.
( 1876, THE GREAT
PER-CENTAGE SCARECROW OR THE HIGHER DEATH RATE OF
THE UNVACCINATED ANALYSED AND DISPOSED OF IN THE
REPORT OF DR LEANDER JOSEPH KELLER )
"The evidence as to
re-vaccination on a large scale comes from the army.
According to a competent statistician (A. Vogt), the
death-rate from smallpox in the German army, in
which all recruits are re-vaccinated, was 60 per
cent, more than among the civil population of the
same age; it was ten times greater among the
infantry than among the cavalry, and sixty times
more among the Hessians than among the
Wurtembergers. The Bavarian contingent, which was
re-vaccinated without exception, had five times the
death rate from smallpox in the epidemic of 1870-71
that the Bavarian civil population of the same ages
had, although re-vaccination is not obligatory among
the latter.."--- Dr. Charles Creighton M.A., M.D.
Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1888
It is often alleged that the
unvaccinated are so much inflammable material in the
midst of the community, and that smallpox begins
among them and gathers force so that it sweeps even
the vaccinated before it. Inquiry into the facts has
shown that at Cologne in 1870 the first unvaccinated
person attacked by smallpox was the 174th in order
of time, at Bonn the same, year the 42d, and at
Liegnitz in 1871 the 225th.."---
Dr. Charles Creighton M.A., M.D. Encyclopedia
Britannica, published in 1888
"Thus, in the Cologne epidemic of 1870, 173
vaccinated persons were attacked before the first
unvaccinated one (Dr. de Pietra Santa—Lettre a
Messieurs de la Chambre des Deputes, Feb. 16, 1881).
Continued ~
In Liegnitz, in 1871, the
first unvaccinated to suffer was 225th on the list;
(Quoted from petition to the Reichstag in A.C.V.
Reporter, June 1st, 1881). and in Bonn, in 1870, the
first unvaccinated victim was the forty-second
attacked."---- William J. Collins, M.D., B.S., B.Sc.
1883
"The 23,469 deaths from
small-pox in the French army, though cited in
St-Petersburg and Berlin, twice published in the
British Medical Journal, approved by Dr. Carpenter,
proclaimed by Sir Lyon Playfair, and declared by Sir
Charles Dilke to be simply "crushing," have been
proved, nevertheless, to be a pure fabrication,
there being no statistical data of the Franco-German
War worthy of the name. The one certain fact about
the matter seems to be that 263 well re-vaccinated
German soldiers died of small-pox."---William J.
Collins, M.D., B.S., B.Sc. 1883 The Case Against
Vaccination by Dr Hadwen (an address at Gloucester
on Saturday, January 25th, 1896, during the
Gloucester Smallpox Epidemic)
India:
"From December, 1849, to
April, 1850, inclusive, 76 cases of small-pox were
admitted into the General Hospital at Calcutta. Of
these cases 29 died. Of the 76 admitted 66 had been
vaccinated. Of the 66 vaccinated 41 had good
cicatrices, 25 were not so well marked. Of the total
76 cases 30 were severe and confluent, 46 mild or
modified. Of the 10 unprotected cases 5 were severe
and confluent, and the remaining 5 were mild
attacks. Of those who had been vaccinated in early
life 16 died. The mortality here stated as occurring
from variola after vaccination was 16 out of 66, or
24 per cent."—Medical Gazette.---Dr. Charles T.
Pearce, M.D. [1868 Book: Essay on Vaccination]