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R I,P if 'LT
OF THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT ;

DATED :LARCH 9, 1312.

Ordered by the House of ColOmons to be prlhted July 9.9,181c2.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD 'RYDER,.
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE, HOME DE-
PARTMENT, &C. &C. &C.

Natienat Vaccine Establishment,
SIR, Leic ester-square, Myra 9, ISI2.
The Board of the National. VacciAe Establish-
ment have the honour of reporting to you, that
during the yelir 181.1, the Surgeons• appointed by
their anthorit to the .nine stations in London,
have .vnccinated,3,l,lB persons, and hat=e ctistri-.
hated 23,794 charges• of Vaccine Lymph to •-iite
public. The numbey 'vaccinated this year exceeds
that of the year tg.lo, and the demand for LN'lmph
'has been often-so great that it could not be imme-
diately -supplied:. : !.-
They 'have great satifaction 'stating, that
since the conunencetuent of this Eftablishment,
not ii single instance of the accessidn of Small-
pox, after Vaccination,,k.asn omurred :Lo any at I.he'
Vuecinating Surgeons Of the nine E,fations..
'the Board report, that they have been
furnishefl with many satisfactOrr, ,d6cu-
inents frouijlie and. Nilital7 Depa;:trn.znt:3
of Government, respecting the pro-gress.of
nation, and have likeNvis.e obtain6i t,,oine.'other in:-
Clout:Ay 'papers on the .subject,
important information. They.:thi:ik., expein-
ent: to lay before you. a 'sunnary of ntheir con-

teas. - -
it appears, that ineonsequence of an order from
the Lords COtrunksionell; of- the Ailnaira:ty,
nation has been practised in the Navy to a great'
extent:; and although it has•not been universall-4.
adopted, the mortality frown-:the Sena 11-pox
m aong-seaMen„ is already greatlyzliminished.
- In the... Army the practice of. N.Teecination hss
-been-brig established, by-an-order from theConi
mander in Chief, and its effects have been liecided-
ly beneficial ; for, 'almost the only :persons apong'
the troops who hive lately been affected by Small:-
pox, hate been either re6rnjts; Who had received ,
the infection previous to their enlistment, or;
di Ts 'Who had.not been vaccinated, on 'the suppo-,
sition o' theiy having had the- variolous 'disease.
Thus, with a few exceptions, a ,diSorder formerly
so fatal to the troops, is now considered as nearly
extinguished' in the Xrniy. • .
'By information transmitted to the Board, from
their numerous correspondents in all parts of the
country,itrappearsthat Vaccination isalmost every
where gaining ground throughout the British do-
minions, though its progress is very differ-
ent in different 'plates ; and it is :found that
the number of, deaths from the Stnall--poie is uni-
formly decreasing; in proportion .as Vaccination.
‘beemmes more general, and the'inoculation of the
Small-pox ,
The dis4pearance of the Small-pox front, the
Island of Ceylon, was noticed in the Report of
last year ; and-the Board has now the pleasure% of
stating, from. sources of authentic and satisfactory
infortnation, that, in consequence of Vaccination,
this dreadful disease has in no instee.ace latelyoccurred
in the island of Anglesey; in the populous city of,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; in the town of Petworth,
or in the adjoining district.
ThroUgh the different counties of tnglandi, trie
epnectice of Vaccination is beconii,..g- general,,
the Sinall-pox is gradually declining ; and even in
London, .where the. Opposition to the new inOcu-i
lation liaS,heen most violent, it' is pr\evei,lifig, and
its salutary effects are becoming daily more
dent. At pre's-ent, by the best estimate .we arc
able .to.inae.e, it appears that nearly tW'o-thirds
the cbldren ann,nally born in the metropolis, are
vaccim ed either by charitable instkutionS or pri-
vate practitioners ; and that the number of deaths
by Small-pox has proportionably decreased_ :P,re_- •
vi.ous to the discovery. of Vabcirl'ation, the aver-we
number of deaths by
.Stoalizpox within the Bins
of 'Mortality, was 12`00 ann.aally ; whereas in tilt.,
last Year, only 751 persons have died of thAt'disl
ease, although the'increase of population within
the last ten years has been 133,139. The inereas.a
of populationthroughout qrelt Britain in the same
period of time, has beet 1,609,009 ; .ancl tci th.t!se•
augmentations the practice of Vaccination has
probably much contributed.
The Reports frOrn the Cow Pock Institution in
Dithlin are of the most favourable nature,,and fur-
nish sufficient reason to believe) that since the in-
trodoction, of the Vaccine preventive, the morta-,
lity from Small-pox has •coneiderahly declined
that city., The correspondence of the Insißetion
ahords.satistactory evidFnce,of to progresive. in- ,
crease of Vaccination thioughout Ireland. In
moSt.of the prinCipal towns of that kingdom, the
poor hate the advantage of gratuitous inoculation
with Cow-Pock, either at the hospitals, or at the
houses of the Physicians ; anti it is stated, that
-among the higher ranks Vaccination is universally
adopted.
'The accounts from Scotland; particularly those
from the Faculty at, Glasgow,, which have been.
transmitted to the Board, ;furnish evidences of the
general and rapid increase of Vaccination in the,
northern part of the island, and give th'e most
satisfactory proofs of the snccess'nnd effitaey of
'the practice.
Notwithstanding the incontrovertible evidence
.Of the ;very great udyantages of Vaccination, it is
much to be lamented that there are' still some me-
dical practitioners, though the number of them is
coinparatively small, who obstinately persist in
disseminating by inoculation the contagion of the
Small-pox, and who. strenuously en/cool-age and
support, especially-among the lower orders of the
people, the,prejudices jtgaiust.the new practice;
rumours are 'industriously spread abroad, of de-
forming arid to:Ahssanie dica.:es produced, by this