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deaths from the Smill Pox is uniformly decreasing,
in proportion as Vaccination becomes more general,
and the inoculation of the Small Pot declines.
•' The disappearance of the Small Pox from 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 informa-
tion, that, in consequence of Vaccination, this dread-
ful disease has in no instance lately occurred in the
Island of Anglesey, in the populous City of New-
castle-upon-Tyne, in the Town of Petworth, or in
the adjoining district.
" Through the different counties of England, the
practice of Vaccination is becoming general, and the
Small Pox is gradually declining ; and even in Lon-
don, where the opposition to the new Inoculation has
been most violent, it is prevailing, and its salutary
effects are becoming daily more evident. At present,
by the best estimate we are able to make, it appears
that nearly two-thirds of the Children annually born
in the Metropolis, are vaccinated either by charititble
institutions or private practitioners ; and that the
number of deaths by Small Pox has proportionably
decreased. Previous to the discovery of Vaccination,
the average number of deaths by Small Pox within
the Bills of Mortality, was 2,000 annually ; whereas
in the last year, only 751 persons have died of that
disease, although the increase of population within
the last ten years has been 133,139. The increase of
population throughout Great Britain, in the same
. period of time, has been 1,609.000; and to these
i augmentations the practice of Vaccination has pro-
bably much contributed.
!• " The Reports from the Cow Pock Institution in
; Dublin are of the most favourable nature, and fur-
nish sufficient reason to believe, that since the intro-
duction of the Vaccine preventive, the mortality
from Small Pox has considerably declined in that
city. The correspondence of the Institution affords
satisfactory evidence of the prog-essive increase of
Vaccination throughout Ireland. In most of the
principal towns ot that kingdom, the Poor have the
. advantage of gratuitous inoculation with Cow Pox,
either at the hospitals, or at the houses of the Physi-
cians ; and it is stated, that among the higher ranks,
: Vaccination is universally adopted.
" The accounts from Scotland, particularly those
ifrom the Faculty at Glasgow, which have been trans-
! mated to the Board, furnish evidence of the general
land rapid increase of Vaccination in the norther- 1
! part of the Island, and give the most satisfactory
I proofs of the success and effic icy of the practice.
"Notwithstanding the incontr,,v Itible evidence of
the very great advantages of V iccination, it. is much
to be lamented that there are still some Medical
Practitioners, though the number of Viern is compara-
tively mall, who obstinately persist in .lisseminating
by inoculation the contag on of th.: Small l'or, and
who stienuotisly eacourape and support, especially
arnoi,g the lot% er orders of the people, the prejudice-
against the new practice ; tumours are industriously
sprea.l abroad, of deforming and loathsome diseases
produced by this practice ; and numerous misstate-
ments of cases are puhlished, of the occurrence of
Small Pox alter Vaccination.—That in some in-
st owes the Small Pox has affected persons who have
been most carefully vaccinated, is sufficiently mita-
blis!.ed ; nor ought we to be surprised at this, when
we consider that the Inoculation for the Small Pox
sometimes fails, and that several cases may be pro-
duced, in which persons have been affected with the
natural disease mare than once in the course of life.
The number of instances of small Pox after Vacci-
nation however is very small, and we may fairly pre-
sume, that in proportioa as improvements ire made
in the practice, such occurrences will still be more
rare.
" The Board have infinite satisfaction in stating
the two following important and decisive facts in
proot of the efficacy and safety of Vaccination, viz.
that in the cases which have come to their knowledge,
the Small Pox after Vaccination, with a very few ex-
ceptions, has been a mild disease ; and that out of
REPORT OP THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT, , the many hunched thousand persons Vaccinated, not
DATED 9TII MAncii, 181'2. la single well-authenticated instance tsas been com-
Ordered, by the House of Commons, to he printed, July 29, INI 2. municated to them, of the occurrence of a fatal Small
10 THE RIGHT ZION. RICHARD RIDER, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY
I Pox after Vaccination.
OW STATE, /WAIL DEEARTIVIENT, &C. &C. &C.
. National Vaccine Establishment,
" They cannot conclude their Report, without ad-
-I.eiarer-s.luare, March 9,181'2. I vetting to the mischiefs which are daily arising from
" Sift—The Board of the National Vaccine Esta- the diffusion of the fatal contagion of Small Pox in
blishmetit have the honour of reporting to you, that the community, in consequence of Varioleus Inocu-
during the year 1811, the Surgeons appointed by ilation, among the lower classes of people, which con-
their authority to the nine Stations in London, have scantly keeps up the contagion, and where it saves a
vaccinated 3,148 persons, 2nd have distributed 23,794 single life, exposes numbers to a most dangerous dis.
charges of Vaccine Lymph to the Public. The ! ease. It is greatly to be wished that this evil could
number vaccinated this year rather exceeds that cf I be checked, by such measures as Government in its
the year 1410, and the demand for Lymph has been i tt isdom might judge proper to frame, in order to
often so gr, at that it could not be imn.cdiately sup- , prevent the spreading of the Small Pox, and thus
plied. keeping up a continual source of infection in the
'4 They have great satisfaction in stating, that heart of the Metropolis.
since the commencement of this Establishment, not " The constant renewal of the contagion of Small
a single instance of the accession of Small-Pox, after Pox in this Capital, which they so deeply lament, is
Vaccination, has occurred to any of the vaccinating strikingly contrasted with the advantages enjoyed by
Surgeons of the nine Stations. several of the other capitals of Europe, in conse-.
'6 The Board report, that they have been lately fur- quence of the universal adoption of Vaccination by
niched with many satisfactory official documents from Medical Practitioners, seconded by the authority of
the Naval and Military Departments of Government, Government. The cities of Vienna and Milan, in
respecting the progress of Vaccination, and have i which the mortality from the Small Pox was former-
likewise obtained some other authentic papers on the ; ly considerable in proportion to their population than
subject, containing much important information.— ' in London, have been for some time freed altogether
They think it expedient to lay before you a summary from this destructive pest; the first for five, and the
of their contents. latter for eight years according to the statements of
“ It appears, that in consequence of an order from Drs. De Curti° and Sacco; And in the city of Ge-
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Vacci- i neva, the Small Pox has been nearly extirpated. In
nation has been practised in the Navy to a great ex.; Switzerland in general, but more particularly in Ge-
tent; and although it has not been universally adopt- neva, the extension of the blessings connected with
ed, the mortality from the Small Pox, among sea- - Vaccination, has in a great degree depended on the
men, is already greatly diminished. warm and active co-operation of the Clergy, who
46 In the Army, the practice of Vaccination has were assiduous in recommending the practice to their
been long established, by an order from the Com. Parishioners from the pulpit, as well as promoting it
mander-m-Chief, and its effects have been decidedly by every other exertion in their power. Impressed
beneficial ; for almost the only persons among the with the strongest conviction of the great advantage
troops who have lately been affected with Small Pox, which Vaccination would derive from a similar co-
have been either recruits, who had received the infer- operation in this country, the Board formerly consi-
tion previous to their enlistment, or soldiers who had dered it as a. pait of their duty to address the Bishops,
not been vaccinated, on the supposition of their for the purpose of soliciting their assistance in
having had the variolous disease. Thus, with a few checking the ravages of the Small Pox, by rendering
exceptions, a disorder formerly so fatal to the troops, the beiarits of the Vaccine Inoculation more eaten.
is now considered as -nearly extinguished in the sively known.
Army. - " The Board has great pleasure in stating, that the.
" By information transmitted to the Board from Money granted by Parliament during the last Ses-
their numerous Correspondents in all parts of the sion, has been sufficient to defray the expenses of the
country, it appears that Vaccination is almost every year 1811, and they are of opinion, that the same
where gaining ground, throughout the British Do- sum will be adequate to the expenditure.of the cur-
minions, though its progress is very different in dif- rail. year. By order of the Board,
ferent places i and it is, found that the number of Jetips HULYEirt Regist‘r.

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