Here 2 centuries of UK, USA and Australian official death statistics show conclusively and scientifically modern medicine is not responsible and played little part in substantially improved life expectancy and survival from disease in western economies.

The Measles mortality graphs are enlightening and contradict the claims of Government health officials that vaccines have saved millions of lives.  It is a plainly unscientific claim which the data show is untrue.
[larger graphs below]

The success of the City of Leicester, England was remarkable in reducing smallpox mortality substantially compared to the rest of England and other countries by abandoning vaccination between 1882 and 1908 [see more below].

Scurvy Mortality Rates

To start you with something simple, Scurvy, Typhoid and Scarlet Fever are good examples to use as comparisons with “vaccinatable” diseases.

The main advances in combating disease over 200 years have been better food and clean drinking water.  Improved sanitation, less overcrowded and better living conditions also contribute.

Medicine and especially drugs and vaccines played no part in the fall in Scurvy death rates and the same can be seen for other diseases. Scurvy is a condition caused by a lack of vitamin C. Poor nutrition, particularly a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables, can result in Scurvy.  Mortality rates fell dramatically as living conditions improved.

TYPHOID & SCARLET FEVER

MORTALITY RATES UK, USA & AUSTRALIA

Typhoid and Scarlet Fever vanished without vaccines but with clean water, better nutrition, sanitation and living conditions.

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Australia Scarlet Fever Mortality Rates 1880 to 1970

MEASLES MORTALITY UK & USA

By 2007 the chance of anyone in England and Wales dying of measles if no one were vaccinated was less than 1 in 55 million. The chance of being struck by lightning is 30 to 60 times higher: Tornado & Storm Research Organisation
Measles Mortality England & Wales 1901 to 1999

Note that what seem large fluctuations after MMR vaccination was introduced in 1988 are not so large and are a feature of plotting the graph on a logarthmic scale.  This can be seen in the following graph,  plotted on an analogue scale.
Measles Mortality England & Wales 1901 to 1999

The graph below is from a peer refereed medical paper: Englehandt SF, Halsey NA, Eddins DL, Hinman AR. Measles mortality in the United States 1971-1975. Am J Public Health 1980;70:1166–1169.  The red dotted trendline has been added.  This shows US measles mortality was falling regardless of whether vaccination was used.  By 2010 overall measles mortality in the USA was to fall to around 1 in 25 million without vaccines. As the severity of measles declined, long term complications would also. Whilst people still caught measles it was not the dreaded disease we are told it is today.

The seeming fall in reported cases in the above Halsey graph after 1968 is misleading. Doctors are poor in accuracy of diagnosis and follow fashions.  Official UK records for 2006 show that when doctors are looking for a disease, they overdiagnose suspected measles cases by ten times higher than are confirmed by laboratory testing [CDR Weekly, PHLS 12:26].

Correspondingly, when vaccination was introduced, they will tend to follow the fashion of not diagnosing measles, where they believe it controlled by vaccination. This following of fashions has been seen in other areas, including Coroner diagnoses of causes of death.
USA Measles Mortality Compared to UK 1901 to 1965

MORTALITY, LIFE EXPECTANCY, HEALTHCARE COSTS UK, USA AND WORLDWIDE

Does paying for healthcare bring you better health and a longer life?  No.  The following graphs show that in 1996, average life expectancy in the US was 18th of all countries, being 5 years less than Canada and behind the UK.  But Americans were paying per person US$1000 or over 1/3rd more than Canadians and nearly 2/3rds more than the British.  And if you then take a look at the graphs of mortality, what were Americans getting for their money?  Mortality rates were falling anyway, regardless and kept on falling.  Life expectancy increased as time went by, but again substantially due to overall improved living conditions?

World Life Expectancy by Country 1996

MORTALITY RATES USA AND UK

DISEASE MORTALITY RATES UK, USA & AUSTRALIA

MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, WHOOPING COUGH, TYPHOID, DIPHTHERIA, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA & TUBERCULOSIS

The following is the same USA graph as just above, but with Influenza and Tuberculosis Deaths included.  And you can see that Influenza deaths were not prevented by a vaccine - because for most of the period covered, there was no vaccine available at all and when it became available, it was not freely available until the present day - when guess what - ‘flu mortality had already plummeted - and guess what else - it does not work particularly well either - in fact so badly it may well be best avoided.

USA Disease Mortality 1900 to 1965 Measles, Typhoid, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Influenza & Pneumonia, Tuberculosis

The following is the same graph as above but showing the full curve for influenza and pneumonia mortality.

USA Disease Mortality 1900 to 1965 Measles, Typhoid, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Influenza & Pneumonia, Tuberculosis - Published: Roman Bystrianyk, healthsentinel.com

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UK Disease Mortality 1901 to 1965 Measles, Typhoid, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever

DIPHTHERIA MORTALITY RATES 

England, USA & Australia

Here we see Diphtheria mortality falling all by itself.  In the UK, although the vaccine was introduced in 1940, most children particularly under 5 did not get it  and there was a large catch-up campaign in 1945-6.  The under 5 age group are the most at risk from infectious disease.  But can you see any difference in the rate of fall of mortality from Diphtheria after 1946 in the UK?  No?  Surprised?

WHOOPING COUGH (PERTUSSIS) MORTALITY RATES

UK, USA & Australia

Whooping Cough or Pertussis - again, the mortality rates fell substantially well before any vaccines were introduced.  The contribution, if any, to overall health has been neglible.

Mumps Mortality

England & Wales

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Australian Whooping Cough (Pertussis) Mortality 1880-1970 - [SOURCE: Data - Official Year Books of the Commonwealth of Australia, as reproduced in Greg Beattie's book "Vaccination A Parent's Dilemma""][/caption]

[SOURCE: Data - Official Year Books of the Commonwealth of Australia, as reproduced in Greg Beattie's book "Vaccination A Parent's Dilemma"]

Tetanus Mortality

England & Wales 1901 to 1999

SMALLPOX MORTALITY

UK, USA & SWEDEN

In the graphs notice the large numbers of deaths caused by the smallpox vaccine itself.  By 1901 in the UK, more people died from the smallpox vaccination than from smallpox itself.  The severity of the disease dimished with improved living standards and was not vanquished by vaccination, as the medical “consensus” view tells us. Any vaccine which takes 100 years to “work” is not.  On any scientific analysis of the history and data, crediting smallpox vaccine for the decline in smallpox appears misplaced.

When during 1880-1908 the City of Leicester in England stopped vaccination compared to the rest of the UK and elsewhere, its survival rates soared and smallpox death rates plummetted [see table below].  Leicester’s approach also cost far less.

Extracts from “LEICESTER: Sanitation versus Vaccination” By J.T. Biggs J.P.

For more details see:LEICESTER AND SMALL-POX

SMALLPOX FATALITY RATES, percent, of cases, in vaccinated and re-vaccinated populations compared with “unprotected” Leicester, in varying periods from 1860 to 1908.

TABLE 21.

Name.	Period.	Small-Pox.  Cases	Small-Pox. Deaths.	Fatality-rate per cent. of Cases
Japan	1886-1908	288,779	77,415	26.8
British Army (United Kingdom)	1860-1908	1,355	96	7.1
British Army (India)	1860-1908	2,753	307	11.1
British Army (Colonies)	1860-1908	934	82	8.8
Royal Navy	1860-1908	2,909	234	8.0
Grand Totals and case fatality rate per cent, over all		296,730	78,134	26.3
Leicester (since giving up vaccination)	1880-1908	1,206	61	5.1

Biggs said “In this comparison, I have given the numbers of revaccinated cases, and deaths, and each fatality-rate separately and together, so that they may be compared either way with Leicester. In pro-vaccinist language, may I ask, if the excessive small-pox fatality of Japan, of the British Army, and of the Royal Navy, are not due to vaccination and revaccination, to what are they due? It would afford an interesting psychical study were we able to know to what heights of eloquent glorification Sir George Buchanan would have soared with a corresponding result—but on the opposite side.“

TABLE 29.
Small-Pox Epidemics, Cost, and Fatality Rates Compared.

	Vaccinal Condition	Small-Pox Cases	Small-Pox Deaths	Fatality-rate Per Cent	Cost of Epidemic
London 1900-02	Well Vaccinated	9,659	1,594	16.50	£492,000
Glasgow 1900-02	Well Vaccinated	3,417	377	11.03	£ 150,000
Sheffield 1887-88	Well Vaccinated	7,066	688	9.73	£32,257
Leicester 1892-94	Practically Unvaccinated	393	21	5.34	£2,888
Leicester 1902-04	Practically Unvaccinated	731	30	4.10	£1,602