The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

VACCINATION IN ITALY.

(From a paper by Mr. E. Lee in the Medical Gazette.)
In no part of the werld perhaps, was the discovery
of Jenner received with a greater degree of faith and
enthusiasm than in Italy, and the Government sought
by every means to prevent the ravages of the small-
pox, and favour the progress of vaccination. In Milan
for instance, if parents refused to have their children
vaccinated, a proves verbal is signed by the vaccina-
tor, the curate of the parish, and the syndic of the
district, stating the opposition that has been made,
and this is sent to the provincial delegation. Charit-
able institutions do not grant assistance to those who
cannot show a certificate of having been vaccinated.
The curates are obliged to send every three months to
the vaccinator of the district a list of the children
born and baptised in their parishes ; to read from the
pulpit every three months the names of those who
have died from the small-pox, and at the same time to
remind parents of their duty towards God and the
Prince, which command them not to omit to avail
themselves of so great a benefit as vaccination.
When an individual is attacked by the small-pox,
the head of the family, and the physician or surgeon
in attendance, were bound to make an immediate de-
claration thereof to the municipal authority, under a
penalty of 100 francs, or a fortnight's imprisonment.
The Administration causes to be placed over the door
of the house, the following inscription, in large let-
ter :—" The small-pox is in the family of
siding in this house." All those who have had com-
munication with the patient are shut up in the same
house until a cure or death ensues ; the body is car-
ried to the burial-ground without being accompanied
by a priest, and is buried without funeral ceremonies
in a spot apart.
According to the new regulations issued by com-
mand of the King of Naples, all those who have
omitted to avail themselves of vaccination are incapa-
citated fromenjoying the sovereign munificence : peti-
tions are not received by the Ministers, nor in any
charitable institution, unless accompanied by certifi-
cate that the individual has been vaccinated. . The ad-

ministrators of hospitals are bound to cause children to
be vaccinated in the month following their admission.
Directors of colleges, ecclesiastical, civil, or mili-
tary, are prohibited from receiving any pupils who
have not been vaccinated.
A central Royal Vaccine Institution is established
in the capital, composed of ten ordinary members, and
two superadded, who have under their orders twelve
ordinary vaccinators, and as many extraordinary, as
also six employes for the correspondence. Each vac-
cinates gratuitously at his residence daily. Every
three months vaccine virus is sent to the provinces,
from the Minister of the Interior, and its receipt, in a
good state, is acknowledged by the provincial vacci-
nators. The children vaccinated must be brought se-
veral times to the vaccinators, in order to ascertain
that the effect is produced.
Vaccine Commissions excite in the chief town of
every province and district ; which are bound to act
according to the instructions transmitted to them, and
to endeavour to diffuse the propagation of vaccination
in their respective localities.
All employes, and those who live at the expense of
Government, must have their children vaccinated. The
clergy are charged to preach to the people, respecting
the usefulness of vaccination, and the duty which is
imposed by God and the King upon each father of a
family to preserve by its means from sickness the lives
of their children.
The vaccine junta of each district causes midwives
to be instructed and convinced of the utility of vacci-
nation, and obliges them to promote its practice as
much as possible. The junta meets every month t.
ascertain that its regulations are obeyed, and in what
' degree vaccination has prospered or declined.

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castle-on-Tyne, Sunderland, and Durham, with greet
' success. On Friday evening, at Durham, every seat in
the boxes was engaged, and a portion of the pit was
railed off for the accommodation of those who were dis-
appointed of places in the boxes, and the additional seats
thus provided were fully occupied.