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VACCINATiON.

COPY' OF THE REPORT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, FROM TUE -.)IATIONAL

VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT, APRIL 12, 1821.
To the Right Hon. Lord Viscount SIDMOUTII, Principal Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department, &c. &c. &c.
National Vaccine Establishment, Percy-street, April 12.

Mw 1401133-.lt is with great regret we announce to your Lord-
ship, that the small pox has occasioned the loss of many lives
in various parts of the United Kingdom since our last Report ;
and that not less than 792 persons-have died of:: that distemper
within the bills of mortality, in the course of the last year.—
This is about one-third of the average number of those who
perished annually in the metropolis before the introduction of
vaccination ; but so many deaths afford a strong presumptive
proof that great prejudices still prevail against vaccination, and
that the benevolent designs of the Governinent are still far from
being accomplished.
This Board has laboured incessantly to set forth the compara-
tive ease and safety of the indisposition of vaccination, and the
difficulty and danger of the small pox, whether occurring natu-
rally or occasioned by inoculation ; and it has been assisted
most importantly, and in the true spirit of disinterested bene-
volence, by the Master, Governors, and Members of the Court
of Assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons, who have bound
themselves individually to each other by a solemn engagement,
not to yield to any solicitations to inoculate for the small •
This good example has been followed by most of the respecta
ble practitioners in the country ; though some of them, we are
sorry to say, have lent themselves improvidently to this injurious
practice. And we find that the multitude in many places has
been so infatuated, as to accept the .proferred services even of
itinerant inoculators, in spite of their gross ignorance of all
disease, and of the rudeness and inaptitude of the instruments
which they employ to insert the poison. Hence a perpetual
source of contagion is supplied and kept up, to the constant
danger of all such as have not yet been vaccinated, or who may
have undergone an imperfect process, or whose peculiarity of
constitution makes them still susceptible of the yariolous
dis-
ease : a peculiarity similar to that which renders some persons
capable of taking the small pox twice ; of which within the pe-
riod of three years only, we have received evidence of not less
than fifty-two instances.
It is true, indeed, my Lord, that we have received ac--
counts from different parts of the country, of numerous cases
of small pox having occurred after vaccination ; and we can-
not doubt, that the prejudices of the people against this pre-
ventive 'expedient, are assignable (and not altogether unrea-
sonably perhaps) to this cause.
These cases the Board has been industriously employed- in
investigating ; and though it appears that many of them rest
only on hearsay evidence, and that others, seem to have under-
gone the vaccine process imperfectly, some years since, when
it was less well understood, and practised less skilfully than it
ought to be, yet, after every reasonable deduction, we are com-
pelled to allow that too many still remain on undeniable proof,
to leave any doubt that the pretensions of vaccination, to the
merit of a perfect and exclusive security in all cases against
small-pax, Were admitted at first rather too unreservedly. Yet
the value of this important resource. is not disparaged in our
judgment; for, after all, theSe cases bear a very small propor-
tion to the number of those who are effectually, protected by it.
The reports of the vaccinators at the several stations in the
metropolis, give only eight cases of small-pox, out of nearlY
67,000 vaccinated by them, since the first establishment of this
Board ; and as the small-pox has prevailed extensively in Lon-
don; these persons so vaccinated must have been frequently ex-
posed to contagion, and consequently the protecting effect of
vaccination must have been submitted to as severe a test as can
well be imagined. Moreover, we have the most widoubted
proofs, from experience, that where vaccination has been per-
formed perfectly, small-pox occurring after . it is almost uni-
versally a safe disease ; and though ushered in by severe symp-
toms-, has hardly ever failed to be cut short before it had reach-
ed that period when it becomes dangerous to life. -
This controlling power of vaccination must he admitted
as nest in importance to its preventive influence; and surely
justifies our high estimation of the.yalue of this great discovery.
The Board has taken care to promulgate to all its corres-
pondents, by repeated admonitions, those modes of conducting
the process of vaccination, which ample experience, within its
own immediate sphere of observation, has ascertained to be the
most successful. . _

It cannot be denied, my Lord, that the continuance of the
practice of inoculation for the small pox is the main source of
whatever disappointment we have met with ; for in those coun-
tries where the Legislature has interfered to prohibit it, and to
enforce vaccination, the small pox has become almost unknown,
and the full benefit of this valuable discovery is enjoyed ; but
similar results, we know, cannot be looked for in the United
Kingdom, until the whole community shall concur voluntarily
in this salutary practice..
We-have only to add, that 6,033 persons were vaccinated last
year at the several stations in London; that 48,105 charges
have been given to the public, and that 77,467 hive been vac-
cinated in Great Britain and Ireland, by our immediate cOrre-
spendents only ; making a total of 84,400 vaccinated last year,
a number superior to that of any former year.
HENRY HALFORI), President.
RICHARD POWELL, M.D.) Censors of the
JOHN COOKE, M.D.
MACMICHAEL, M.D.
j of "
Ph
P. MERE' LATHAM, :1I.1).:1I.1).Royal
yans. College
T. FOSTER, Master of the Royal College of
Surgeons.
EVERARD HOME, `Governors of the Royal
WILLIAM BLIZARD, j College of Surgeons.
By order of the Board,
JAMES HERVEY, M.D. Registrar.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 17.

EX-PARTE LORD ORMOND.
Thigh ease 'originally came before the Court in consequence of
the proceedings of the creditors of the late Lord Ormond,.who,
coneching it the most sure course to pursue for the obtainment
et the liquidation of their claims, had- pm.:getied to-t4ke the
erects in the Castle of Kilkenny. Pending these 'proceedings,
application it as made to the Lord Chancellor to restrain them
from disnosing of the family plate, &c. which by the-will of the
late Duke were declared to be heirlooms on the estate, he' con-
ceiving his English end Irish property sufficient to defray them;
the truste-es having refused to admit the present Lord Ormond
into possession of the Castle at Kilkenny:
Mr. BART said, he was instruced to move that he (Lord
Ormond),should be forthwith put auto possession of it
.and also
to about 40 or 50 acres of land, which had been usually enjoyed
with it. The British and Trish estates, he observed, had been
given to Mr. Butler Clark, with a reversionary: interest to the
present Duke, subject to the payment of the incurribrances; but
as their amount was not yet ascertained correctly, he would, for
the present, decline- asking any thing more than he had done,
trusting that when it was remembered that no person could be
found to pav the rent asked for the Castle., and the great injury
it had already sustained, and was likely to suffer from remain-
ing untenanted, were taken into consideration, his Lord hip
would grant the motion.
Mr. ItotYpELL; on the same side, said the Lord °mord
was the Military Commander of the County, but had no resi-
dence in it.

Ml'. HEALD, on the part of Mr. B. Clark, consented to the
Petition.

The LORD CIIACELL3II.—TEIe your order.

COURT Or KING'S BENCII, MAY 17.
LIBEL ON THE QUEEN.
THE RIND V. THE REV. RICHARD lILACOW.
This case was called on, when Mr. -Bttou ealAbi was rising
to suppdrt the rule for a criminal information against this de-
fendant for a libel on her Majesty, when
The CHIF.F JUSTICE interposed, and said, that as:Mr..Jus-
tice Best had heard part of the case on a former day, end as he
was now absent, the case had better stand over until the Court
waS

Ir. BROUGHAM said he was only anxious that the case
should be disposed of as early as possible, so that in the evcnt
cf file Court decidim in favour of the extraordinary proposition
urged on the other side, measures might be taken to sanity the
purpose's of justice in another way.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—I think we should have all the Judges
present in such a ease.—Postponed.

CRUELTY.--On Wednesday last a complaint
was made to the Sitting Magi.itrate at Union
Hall, by Mr. Gooch, Churchwarden of Camber-
well, against John Gold, a milkman, and his
wife, residing in Southampton-place, for their
brutal treatment of Ann Gold, a child aged eight
years, by his former wife. Mr. Gooch stated,
that on the preceding evening four persons had
waited upon • the Parish Officers and Committee
at the Work-house, and entered fully into a de'
tail of the cruel treatment. of Gold and his wife
to the child in question ; in consequence of which
he took the beadle with him to Gold's house!
tic hOe he'ttw the child, who appeared to have
been recently beaten in a desperate manner.
He had ;the child stripped, and the whole boil!'
was a melancholy spectacle of the effects of bar'
barity.' Her head was humped from -blows of
large stici; ; her face black from , bruises, lac.e'
rated from the effects of a rope with which she
had been beaten, and the nails of the inhuman'
she-monster, ter stepmother ; the right eye wa'
greatly inflamed and bloodshot ; her shoulder'
were whaled from the blows she had receiN7ed'
her hands and feet were shocking to look at;
from the effects of chilblains and blows inflicte"
during their continuance. The beadle took thi,
child to the Work-house, where it'was fed, and
properly attended. Gold and his wife were thee
placed at the bar ; when Elizabeth' Danstert. re'
siding a few doors off, and Frederick Cause.°
journeyman baker, living next door .to Gold, de;
posed to the child's having been heat on Moncbst
last, when she was seen in the yard crying, hee
body much bruised and very bloody ; that Q,
father afterwards, knocked here down with
fist, and when down kicked her upon the be°,
with his heavy shoes ; that the child seas
quently tied. by a rope and chain to a lteavi .is
1
ble, her hands also being confined ; that to
child had been seen standing for a great 1e1q:.6
of time in an erect posture, her head back, "
extended arms holding flat irons and weights/
a punishment ;. that she had been seen in the Ph,
naked, and was frequently turned into tri
streets, regardless of the weather, until a Ye 1
late hour. Additional testimony tits ready, 10;
the worthy Magistrate deemed it unnecessAr;e
and, afttr a suitable expression of horror at te`?
' wanton and brutal conduct of the prisoners,th
were committed, for want of bail, to take Wt,
trial at the adjourned Newing,ton Sessiotoeri
June next. The bail required of the prisoi,!l.
was, themselves in WO!. and four sureties in - , ,ell
each, and to give the parish officer of Catribe.f°'
24 hours' notice of the same.
The three new churches about to be erect
40
at Leeds are to cost 100,0001 each. Two. Qii"o4
are to be built from the designs, and under
direction of architects from London. rrtilr
A duel took place a few days ago, near
bercurry, Ireland, between. Lieutenant
QGILVIE, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, and tido
thin BitowN, of the Mayo Militia, in which •
latter Gentleman was severely wounded. 0 oil
On the night •of his MAJESTY'S visit t Of
Opera, a Gentleman going into the Pit 113
pocket picked of a very valuable gold watc%it
Was extricated from hiS pocket with such aej
•rity, that he had not the slightest kno‘cleo
lw when it happened, although his seals were tutt,eisr
in his fob, and his coat buttoned,.tight 0ver_.....„,

BIRTH. ' ~ PI
Of Twins, in Dover-street, the Lady of W. M. F'; ,46141'''
M.P. a daughter on Tuesday night, and, a soli I
morning.

Frances, • • MARRIED.
csetesrdtabyi,rdatdSat.ullteeoirg.:3;;,i
Power,
E. Psgo.wol'tltli
square, 'Bloomsbury. 410..
Yesterday, at Northfieet, in Kent, John BrenchleY, ; •
Donton-court, naar Uravesehd, to Mary itztenel, elate ,lells~
ter of Thorc.-4 itarnian, Esq. of lirordowell-ha.' rti:.)
county.
DIED. „f
Tuesday last, John 13onnycasth, Esq., Professor ,`,"
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manes at ttL :e Academy,, at Woolwich' ,ffiP
On Sunday the. 6th instant, whilst ,attendie.,,,,,, tiivine
Iforbling church, Lincolnshire, die Rev. Bernard 47.,.14e1ip
rector ofEast Keel, gad vicar of South EPsingtoo.•
erend Gentleman expired wh,Ust surrounciiAl by hi 4
his pew, from an attack of the angina :pectorik, to tike Fl
of which he. had been for some yeazs-subject.
On the lt;th inst.. after along and severe
wife of John Sandersou, Fig:, of Brcr....d•--stre‘2t-huiltuni orr
On• Wednesday, the 16th inst., Jam.y; Fisha,
street,
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