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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). THE most important questions dealt with at the Vienna Congress were those relating to preventive medicine, a branch of medical science which originated with Edward Jenner's discovery of immunity from small-pox by means of vaccination. The high value of vaccination and re-vaccination was clearly show a in the Demographic Section of the Congress by statistical tables exhibited by T. Körösi, the Director of the Statistical Office in Buda-Pesth. According to these tables the mortality of the not-vaccinated patients treated in nineteen Hungarian small-pox hospitals was 800 per cent, larger than that of the vaccinated patients, while the receptivity for getting the disease was three and a half times larger in the not-vaccinated as compared with the vaccinated people. In the Fourth Section the question of vaccination was also submitted for discussion by a lecture delivered by a Turkish delegate, Dr. Violi, and a resolution recommending to all Governments the introduction of compulsory vaccination was unanimously adopted.
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The Sixty International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Vienna . Nature 36, 618–619 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036618a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036618a0