Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — The Practical Extinction of Small Pox. [ARTICLE]

The Practical Extinction of Small Pox.

Dr. Cyrus £dson, in June Forum. About 80,000 children ate vaccinated annually by the physicians of the Board of Health in New York City.! Adults who request it are also vaccinated. The operation is performed up-' on from 80,000 to 90,000 persons every year. The vaccinating corps of the. Health Department was organized in 1874. The result of its work was not. apparent until 1876. The deaths from small-pox previous to 1876 averaged 69.57 per 100,000 per year; since 1876 they have averag-d 8.38 per 100,000 per year, and this average is being yearly reduced. During the past sixteen months we have had Only two cases of the disease in New York city. One of these cases occurred in the* most thickly populated part of the city, where the number of inhabitants per acre is greater than on any other spot in the world; yet sowell was the neighborhood protected that not a single case occurred amoug the many that were exposed.