Smallpox case mortality
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[Case mortality (death rate
per cases of smallpox) was much worse under vaccination where it reached
the heights of 26.8% in Japan (see
table 21) where revaccination was enforced to 1.26 (averaging 5.1) under the
Leicester Method where vaccination was rejected in favour of sanitation, and 0%
under homeopathic care. A fine example is to be found over 100 years after
the start of vaccination in the
Phillipines
1905-1920.
By ignoring effective (non-Allopathic) medicine and
preventive measures Allopathy can use fear to promote vaccination, all food for
The Fear of Disease Racket.]
See: Early allopathic therapies Graph C: Small-Pox fatalities in Japan, British Army and Navy, and Leicester
NB: "Under allopathic care the (typhoid) mortality was 59.2% while under homeopathic care the mortality was only 9%."--Julian Winston
If one fact stands out more clearly than another, it is that the case fatality
of small-pox depends on treatment. I remember very well, during the small-pox
epidemic of 1871-2, reading a letter from Dr. Smedley, of
Matlock, Bath, in which
he says he regretted to read of the numerous deaths from small-pox. He said :
"It is a most harmless disease if properly treated. I have treated hundreds of
cases without a single fatality." The effect of treatment is clearly shown by
the following statements:
Gloucester Epidemic*
In this epidemic, during the first twelve months, the deaths out of 277 cases
were 151, equal to a death-rate in the Municipal Hospital of 54 per cent, of the
cases. The reason for this high death-rate was that the patients were crowded
together, two or three or even four in a bed, the nursing staff was too small,
the medical attendant was inexperienced. Then came a medical man from the Local
Government Board, who sternly condemned the hospital arrangements, and got a
newly arranged hospital. Immediately the case fatality fell from 54 per cent, to
10 per cent, in that newly organised hospital, while the average death-rate in
the Municipal Hospital out of 730 cases was 27 per cent. But during this same
epidemic there came a Captain Fielden, from Derby, who treated over 200 cases.
He had a very simple and humane way of treating them. He applied medicated
ointment to the feverish skin, and so relieved the symptoms that the patients
quickly recovered, and his case fatality was under 2-per cent.
Case Fatality : London, Leeds, Leicester, Sydney (Australia) Niagara Falls
(U.S.A.). In the epidemic of 1901-2 in London the
case fatality was about 17 per cent. In
Leeds, during the years 1899 to 1904, to August 7th inclusive, out of 577 cases
the deaths were 28, making a case fatality of nearly 5 per cent. In Leicester,
in the years 1902-3-4-5, out of 741 cases there were 30 deaths, showing a case
fatality of 4 per cent. It may be asked, why this difference in case fatality ?
I suggest that it depends, on treatment. In London the number of cases was large
in proportion to the accommodation, and therefore neither the air space nor the
nursing accommodation was as much as was required for the best treatment. Also, as
far as I can make out from the Report of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, every case was vaccinated at the hospital or otherwise recently vaccinated, and
this would throw an additional strain upon the strength of the patient. The
result was a total case fatality for the years 1901 and 1902 of 16.87 Per cent.,
or nearly 17 per cent. ; whilst for the year 1901 the case fatality was 16.7
portent. ; in 1902, when there were more cases, and consequently more strain was
put on the accommodation, the case fatality rose to 18.4 per cent. In Leeds the
number of cases occurring annually was small in proportion to the accommodation,
and therefore each patient got better attention, and the death-rate was not
more than 5 per cent. The same observations apply to Leicester, where the
death-rate was only 4 per cent, on the average of four years. At
Sydney, in 1913,
out of 1,016 cases of small-pox there was not a single death, although 95 per
cent, of the cases were unvaccinated. At Niagara Falls, 1913-14, out of about
500 cases none were fatal, although vaccination had been largely discarded in
the town for many years. Some medical men have now adopted Captain Fielden's
principle of applying ointment to the feverish skin of the patient with
satisfactory results. There is little doubt that if once our medical men could
shake themselves clear of the vaccination superstition they would soon be able
to deal with small-pox patients in a satisfactory manner.
[1921] Vaccination
and the State By Arnold Lupton MP.
Unvaccinated Leicester
case mortality 1.24%
So that, after casting aside as worthless over 75 per cent, of the 20,000
cases they themselves chose to enumerate, and having specifically selected a
number of cases—in which "there is no doubt some room for error"—upon which to
base their final result, we then have left 4,754 vaccinated and revaccinated
cases, or vaccination failures, with 247 deaths, yielding a case fatality-rate
of 5.2 per cent. Compare this with the case fatality-rate of vaccinated and
unvaccinated together in the Leicester epidemic of 1892-94 of 5.8 per cent., and
also with the Leicester epidemic of 1902-04, with its case fatality-rate of only
3.49 per cent., or, taking the epidemic of 1904 alone, a case fatality-rate of
only 1.24 per cent. In other words, the case fatality-rate (2.48 per
cent.) of the 1,125 cases with four vaccination marks, specially selected by the
Royal Commission, was exactly double that of unvaccinated Leicester (1.24 per
cent.) in the small-pox epidemic of 1904. Wherein, we may ask, is the benefit of
either vaccination or revaccination? How much more serviceable to humanity would
it have been, had the Royal Commission devoted half of this futile ingenuity to
the important Leicester evidence in favour of sanitation, as compared with and
opposed to vaccination!
LEICESTER: SANITATION versus VACCINATION
BY J.T. BIGGS J.P.
Vaccinated 1902-4 London's case mortality 3 times unvaccinated Leicester, and 9
times higher in 1904
Even the case fatality-rate
of the vaccinated patients in the London epidemic, as given in the special
report, was 14.21 per cent. Compare this with the case fatality-rate of the
unvaccinated patients at Leicester, in 1902-04 (given by Dr. Millard at page 21
of his report for 1904), of only 4.87 per cent, for the whole epidemic ; also
with the unvaccinated case fatality-rate for the 1904 portion of the epidemic,
of only 1.6 per cent. London has not much to boast of, when its vaccinated case
fatality-rate was, therefore, nearly three times as great as (or about 300 per
cent, above) Leicester's unvaccinated case fatality-rate for the whole epidemic,
and about nine times higher than (or nearly 900 per cent, above) Leicester's
unvaccinated case fatality-rate for 1904. CH 52
LEICESTER: SANITATION versus VACCINATION
BY J.T. BIGGS J.P.
So that, after casting aside as worthless over 75 per cent, of the 20,000 cases they themselves chose to enumerate, and having specifically selected a number of cases—in which "there is no doubt some room for error"—upon which to base their final result, we then have left 4,754 vaccinated and revaccinated cases, or vaccination failures, with 247 deaths, yielding a case fatality-rate of 5.2 per cent. Compare this with the case fatality-rate of vaccinated and unvaccinated together in the Leicester epidemic of 1892-94 of 5.8 per cent., and also with the Leicester epidemic of 1902-04, with its case fatality-rate of only 3.49 per cent., or, taking the epidemic of 1904 alone, a case fatality-rate of only 1.24 per cent. In other words, the case fatality-rate (2.48 per cent.) of the 1,125 cases with four vaccination marks, specially selected by the Royal Commission, was exactly double that of unvaccinated Leicester (1.24 per cent.) in the small-pox epidemic of 1904. Wherein, we may ask, is the benefit of either vaccination or revaccination? How much more serviceable to humanity would it have been, had the Royal Commission devoted half of this futile ingenuity to the important Leicester evidence in favour of sanitation, as compared with and opposed to vaccination! LEICESTER: SANITATION versus VACCINATION BY J.T. BIGGS J.P.
False records
from medical men as to case mortality
"The returns from special smallpox hospitals make out a very small
death-rate (6 per cent.) among the vaccinated and a very large death-rate (40 to
60 per cent.) among the unvaccinated. The result is doubtful qua
vaccination, for the reason that in pre-vaccination times the death-rate (18.8
per cent.) was almost the same as it is now in the vaccinated and unvaccinated
together (18.5). "---Dr.
Charles Creighton M.A., M.D.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
published in 1888
"Defenders of vaccination produce fantastic fatality rates for the "unvaccinated" in smallpox outbreaks. Seeing that there is general agreement that 18 per cent was the average smallpox fatality rate before vaccination was introduced, those who tell of rates of 35, 50, 60 and even 100 per cent should be asked what treatment the "unvaccinated" received at the hands of modern doctors that they died at these extraordinary rates."---- Lilly Loat [Book 1951] The Truth About Vaccination and Immunization
Vaccination increased case mortality, usually 18% under
allopathy:
"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)
"Writing in the British Medical Journal (21/1/1928 p116) Dr L Parry questions the vaccination statistics which revealed a higher death rate amongst the vaccinated than the unvaccinated and asks: "How is it that smallpox is five times as likely to be fatal in the vaccinated as in the unvaccinated?"--Ian Sinclair
0%-2% under
homeopathy & naturopathy, water cure:
"Not one case receiving homeopathic care died, while the "old
school" doctors lost twenty percent of their (smallpox) cases.....I gave about three
hundred internal vaccinations, five to adults acting as practical nurses; to the man who
installed the telephone and lights in the pest-house; to mothers who slept with their
children while they had smallpox in its severest form. All of these people, exposed daily,
were immune."--W. L. Bonnell, MD
"Dr. Russell T. Trall, the eminent Natural Hygienist, considered smallpox "as essentially . . . not a dangerous disease." He cared for large numbers of patients afflicted with smallpox and never lost a case. Under conventional medical treatment, patients were drugged heroically, bled profusely, were smothered in blankets, wallowed in dirty linen, were allowed no water, fresh air and stuffed with milk, brandy or wine. Antimony and Mercury were medicated in large doses. Physicians kept their patients bundled up warm in bed, with the room heated and doors and windows carefully closed, so that not a breath of fresh air could get in, and given freely large doses of drugs to induce sweating (Sudorifics), plus wine and aromatized liquors. Fever patients were put into vaporbath chambers in order to sweat the impurities out of the system. Given no water when they cried for it and when gasping for air were carried to a dry-hot room and after a while were returned to the steam torture. Many must have died of Heat Stroke!"--Dr Shelton DC http://www.whale.to/vaccine/shelton.html
"I don't think there's been any major shift in the medical profession's general approach to new ideas. I don't think there ever will be that kind of wholesale change. Three hundred years ago, when the major disease was smallpox, Sir Thomas Sydenham [1624-89] developed a new treatment that reduced the death rate from about 50 percent to 1 percent or 2 percent. His reward was being challenged to a duel. The English medical association wanted to drive him out. He wrote: "A new idea is like a sapling in the middle of a road, and if it's not fenced in, it will be galloped over by the trampling hordes." That's a really great statement, and it's also my view of what happens to medical discovery." -----Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD 1997 Interview by Peter Barry Chowka.
"Both Press and Radio continue to preach that smallpox is a terribly infectious and deadly scourge. They never tell us that " - . - provided no mischief be done either by physician or nurse, it is the most safe and slight of all diseases". (Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1688).--Lionel Dole http://www.whale.to/v/dole.html
"Mr. Pickering, who treated cases at Gloucester by the "water cure" method, declared that his fatality rate was as low as 2 per cent."---- Lilly Loat [Book 1951] The Truth About Vaccination and Immunization
Nutrition affects
case mortality:
"The most important observation on the medical
aspect of this disease is the caehexia with which it is invariably associated
and which is actually the soil requisite for its different degrees of virulence.
I refer to the scorbutic cachexia. Among the lower-classes of people this
particular acquired constitutional perversion of nutrition is most prevalent,
primarily on account of their poverty, but also because of the fact that they
care little or nothing for fruits or vegetables. That a most intimate connection
exists between variola and scorbutus is evidenced by the fact that it is most
prevalent among the poor or filthy class of people; that it is more prevalent in
winter, when the anti-scorbutics are scarce and high priced; and, finally, that
the removal of this perversion of nutrition will so mitigate the virulence of
this malady as positively to prevent the pitting or pocking of smallpox.
A failure of the fruit crop in any particularly large area is always
followed the succeeding winter by the presence of smallpox"----Charles Campbell MD
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