[1167] Parliamentary Papers, 1807, 8th July.
[1168] Bateman, Reports etc. 1819, p. 102. The principle of the Common Law on which the judgment rested was, “Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas.”
[1169] Joseph Adams, An Inquiry into the Laws of Epidemics, with Remarks on the Plans lately proposed for Exterminating the Smallpox. London, 1809. The Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal (VI. 231), in a long review of this essay, declared that Adams was inconsistent in reaffirming his old faith in cowpox and at the same time demanding liberty for the inoculators.
[1170] J. C. Steele, M.D., “Increase of Smallpox in Glasgow.” Glas. Med. Journ. N. S. I. 59. The Paris figures are cited from the Annuaire pour l’an 1852-53.
[1171] I do not, of course, answer for the correctness of Gregory’s statements.
[1172] Lancet, 12 Dec. 1838.
[1173] 409 of these in Sheffield.
[1174] There are two notable exceptions, marked †, Lancashire and Yorkshire; but, in regard to their higher mortality from smallpox in 1837-40, it should be kept in mind that they were the chief scenes of the great distress among the working class in those years, the same causes which produced an enormous mortality from typhus fever in adults having tended to increase the fatality of smallpox among the children.
[1175] In the first universal and very fatal epidemic of measles, that of 1808, a good many adults, who had not had measles before, were attacked. See the chapter on Measles.
[1176] The accounts by Fothergill, Wall and others, of the malignant sore-throat with scarlet rash about 1740 give prominence to cases in early manhood or womanhood.