Racial disparity, social determinates of health, and slavery during the Boston smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth century - Nakayama DK.

When Benjamin Franklin published the mortality rates from smallpox during the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1752, he revealed that Blacks not only had a higher mortality rate from smallpox (12.8%, 62/485; 8.9% for whites, 452/5,059), but once inoculated, had...
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