Share of total deaths due to smallpox by age during the Great Pandemic of 1870-1875

Share of total deaths due to smallpox in select age groups in various parts of Europe during the Great Pandemic of 1870 to 1875

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Release date

December 2018

Region

Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom (England, Scotland), Germany (Bavaria)

Survey time period

1865 to 1874

Supplementary notes

The age brackets given here are the same as those used in the source; it is unclear where data for the overlapping ages are recorded (i.e. it is not clear if the deaths of those aged five years old were recorded in the 1-5 or 5-10 age bracket).
*Smallpox vaccination was compulsory.

In 1871, Bavaria also had compulsory vaccination, and the share of total deaths due to smallpox:
Below 1 year: 13.8%
1-20: 5.7%
20-50: 43.9%
Above 50 years: 36.6%

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