1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic

Disease outbreak in Gloucester, England May 2023 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896; Henry Wicklin, aged 6 Wellcome V0031456.jpg Henry Wicklin, age 6, afflicted with smallpoxGloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Henry Wicklin, aged 6 years, as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cxnxebwc Wellcome Collection en 4 May 2020 Smallpox Gloucester, UK Over 2,000 thumb|Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896 Wellcome V0031469 The 1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic affected more than 2,000 people in Gloucester between five January and 27 July 1896. A large number of the town's population were not vaccinated.Lillywhite Maisie 28 February 2021 Epidemic that gripped Victorian Gloucester 125 years before Covid https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/epidemic-gripped-victorian-gloucester-came-5038513 10 May 2022 GloucestershireLive en On 13 August 1896, the Royal Commission on Vaccination's report on the epidemic was published by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Background In Britain, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in the 1850s.The child whose town rejected vaccines https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WsT4Ex8AAHruGfXd Wellcome Collection en 3 May 2020 In Gloucester, a smallpox outbreak occurred in the mid-1870s.Rolleston J. D. John Davy Rolleston December 1933 The Smallpox Pandemic of 1870-1874 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 27 2 177–192 10.1177/003591573302700245 0035-9157 2204618 19989604Richardson Harriet Architecture of Isolation https://www.sahgb.org.uk/features/architecture-of-isolation 10 May 2022 Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain en-GB However, the 1890s also saw anti-vaccination beliefs.Kotar S. L. https://books.google.com/books?id=SldbwtGwVFcC&pg=PA259 Smallpox: A History Gessler J. E. 2013 McFarland 978-0-7864-9327-2 259 enDurbach Nadja Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907 https://books.google.com/books?id=TtMDl7n8iq8C&pg=PA177 2005 Duke University Press 0-8223-3423-2 177 Cases President of the Local Government Board Thomas Russell stated in 1896 that, between 4 January and 25 July 1896, the number of cases of smallpox in Gloucester totalled 2,008.Smallpox Epidemic (Gloucester) (Hansard, 13 August 1896) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1896/aug/13/smallpox-epidemic-gloucester api.parliament.uk 6 May 2020 A large number of the town's population were not vaccinated.12 March 1898 The Gloucester Small-pox Epidemic British Medical Journal 1 1941 703–704 10.1136/bmj.1.1941.703 0007-1447 2410935 20757701 Ethel Cromwell Ethel Cromwell was around 14 years old when her photograph was taken in a hospital in Gloucester, following admission with smallpox. She was not vaccinated, but recovered. Response An isolation hospital, the Stroud Road hospital was built in response.Gloucester: Hospitals https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol4/pp269-275 British History Online 8 May 2020 One reaction was that it led to prejudice against Gloucesterians.April 2020: Rugby is disrupted at Kingsholm https://www.gloucesterrugbyheritage.org.uk/content/places/kingsholm/april-2020-rugby-is-disrupted-at-kingsholm Williams Dick Gloucester Rugby Heritage en 3 May 2020 On 13 August 1896, the Royal College of Surgeons of England published a report by the Royal Commission on Vaccination, whose members included Lord Herschell and Sir James Paget. A subsequent outbreak of smallpox occurred in 1923. See also Walter Hadwen References Further reading The smallpox epidemic in Gloucester in 1895-6, and the water cure. Pickering, J. (1896) Gloucester epidemic of small-pox, 1895-6 : report of the committee appointed by the Board of Guardians to organise and carry out the general vaccination of the city and district. Gloucester (England) Royal College of Surgeons of England (1896) What the press has said about the Gloucester epidemic and the report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination Royal College of Surgeons of England (1896) Does vaccination prevent smallpox? Does vaccination prevent smallpox? : a lesson taught from the Gloucester epidemic. Drysdale, Charles R., London Vegetarian Society (1896) Smallpox at Gloucester: A Reply to Dr. Coupland's Report, 1902. Reprinted from "The Reformer," National Anti-Vaccination League: Gloucester. External links Category:Smallpox epidemics Category:1896 in England Category:History of Gloucester