From recent experiments in preventive inoculation for typhoid fever in the British Army, it has been found, that, while those who had not been inoculated showed an enormous death rate, due to the conditions of campaigning; on the other hand, those who had been inoculated were practically immune, the percentage of deaths being next to nothing.
The scourge of smallpox, which a hundred years ago swept whole communities, gave enormous numbers over to death, and disfigured the faces of nearly all who survived, has become almost a thing of past history, where vaccination is thoroughly and systematically enforced. For years, until the recent outbreak, which at no time was beyond control, and which subsided after the health authorities had put into operation their repressive measures, it has been a curiosity in Greater New York.
In cases of child-birth, by the use of anesthetics and antiseptics, the mortality is but one-fifth of what it used to be, or almost nothing. The care in preparation, and the standardizing of drugs, the inspection of milk and its sterilization, the scientific supervision of the making and distribution of foods for infants and children—have all contrib-
