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1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic

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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
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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.
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stated in 1896 that, between 4 January and 25 July 1896, the number of cases of smallpox in Gloucester totalled 2,008. A large number of the town's population were not
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In Britain, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in the 1850s. In Gloucester, a smallpox outbreak occurred in the mid-1870s. However, the 1890s also saw
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Does vaccination prevent smallpox? Does vaccination prevent smallpox? : a lesson taught from the Gloucester epidemic
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What the press has said about the Gloucester epidemic and the report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination
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On 13 August 1896, the Royal Commission on Vaccination's report on the epidemic was published by the
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between 5 January and 27 July 1896. A large number of the town's population were not
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Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907
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One reaction was that it led to prejudice against Gloucesterians.
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The smallpox epidemic in Gloucester in 1895-6, and the water cure
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Smallpox at Gloucester: A Reply to Dr. Coupland's Report
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Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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A subsequent outbreak of smallpox occurred in 1923.
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Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896 Wellcome V0031469
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Smallpox
Gloucester

Gloucester
vaccinated
Royal College of Surgeons of England
anti-vaccination beliefs
Thomas Russell
vaccinated
Ethel Cromwell (with smallpox)
Ethel Cromwell (convalescing)
Ephraim Beard with smallpox. Died on 13 April 1896
isolation hospital
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Royal Commission on Vaccination
Lord Herschell
Sir James Paget
Walter Hadwen
"Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Henry Wicklin, aged 6 years, as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896"


"Smallpox Epidemic (Gloucester) (Hansard, 13 August 1896)"
"Epidemic that gripped Victorian Gloucester 125 years before Covid"




"The child whose town rejected vaccines"
Rolleston, J. D.

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