§ 65. Mr. NEIL MACLEANasked the Secretary for Scotland whether any of the cases removed to hospital as suffering from small-pox during the present outbreak in Glasgow have been vaccinated at any time during the past six months; and what are the ages of the cases, how many are vaccinated cases, how many unvaccinated, and in how many is the question of vaccination doubtful?
§ The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Munro)As the particulars necessary to a complete reply are lengthy, I propose to circulate them in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ The following are the particulars referred to:
§ 1. No cases have been removed to hospital who had been vaccinated within six months previous to the date of contracting infection.
§ Twenty-nine persons who subsequently developed small-pox were vaccinated either in their own homes or in the Reception Houses after known exposure to infection, that is, between the date of contracting infection and the development of the disease. In seven of these cases 1082 vaccination failed. In twenty-two the disease was in modified form, except in the case of a child of two months, who had been exposed to infection at home for seven days before discovery and vaccination.
§ 2. One hundred and eighty-six cases of all ages have been vaccinated in infancy. The mortality among these has been 12 per cent. One hundred and sixty-eight of these cases and the whole of the deaths have occurred among persons over 16 years of age.
§ 3. In fifty-seven cases who had never been vaccinated the mortality has been 35 per cent., all but six being under age 15.
§ 4. In three cases the primary vaccination was doubtful. One of these, an adult, died. These are included in the one hundred and eighty-six vaccinated cases.
§ Of the one hundred and eighty-six previously vaccinated cases, one had been revaccinated in 1890, five in 1901, one in 1906, and one in 1916; but the two latter showed no evidence of successful revaccination.
§ Among the group vaccinated in infancy, only four were under 10 years, and were mild and modified cases.