Sickness a Factor of Political Economy, Cost of Sickness to the Individual and the State

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Excerpt from Sickness a Factor of Political Economy, Cost of Sickness to the Individual and the State: Annual Address Delivered Before the Connecticut Medical Society, at Hartford, May 23, 1889In 1841, inoculation was made illegal. In 1853, statistics showed an alarming increase of deaths from small pox in the first quinquennial of life, and determined the Act of that year which required parents to have their children vaccinated before they were six months old, imposing a fine of (20) twenty shillings, a single fine closed the case.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.