A plea for the children
Subtitle: with an exact reproduction of two pages of an old register kept in the parish chapel at Pudsey in Yorkshire, in 1787 and 1792, shewing (1) the prevalence of small-pox in the last century, and (2) the special ravages it made amongst children
Publisher: Jenner Society
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Gloucester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Smallpox; Epidemiology; Mortality; History; Vaccination; Child; Infant
Description: Also includes statistics from the epidemics in Gloucester and Middlesbrough in 1896 and 1898 respectively.
Notes: The Jenner Society "was founded in the year in which fell the centenary of his [i.e. Jenner's] great discovery." (British Medical Journal, July 24, 1897, p. 227)