304 V.accine. Innoculaiion hi Walts • 



*f introducing and recommending what they do not deafly 

 underftand, and about which they are too idle to make in- 

 quiries. And, I am afraid, a few will be found, who regarding 

 their annual harveft from the imall-pox as likely to be dimi- 

 nifhed or totally loft, will honeftly endeavour to extinguifh 

 the light that would conduct their fellow-beings to fafety. 

 luihcr Street, March 19, 1S00. 



"POSTSCRIPT. 



" After a lapfe of three years, the author of thefe obferva- 

 tions cannot but congratulate himfelf and the public on the 

 unequivocal fuccefs which has attended his introducing the 

 cow-pock into this country. Upwards of a thoufand per- 

 fons in the various towns of South-Wales have been ino- 

 culated, without the fmalleft accident or interruption to 

 their health; and the ufual ravages from the fm all -pox are 

 manifeftly diminifhing every year. 



Swaniea, June 9, 1S02. 



'Extratl of a Letter to Dr. Vearfon. 



" MY DEAR SIR, Swanfea, Auguft 6, 1S02. 



i£ You will fee by the inclofed, how I from time to time pro- 

 mote the good caufe. I have overcome all difficulties, and 

 many thoufands have been inoculated without one accident 

 or the lead apparent danger. In fomc towns the whole of 

 the inhabitants, not having previoufly had the fmall-pox, 

 have confidently taken the cow-pock. The fmall-pox has 

 not appeared here for fome time, and I hope the day is not 

 far diftant when it mall be declared criminal by the legiflature 

 to introduce it. Whatever may be the opinion of any in- 

 dividual as to the comparative fafety of either, no man can 

 now be juttified in contaminating his neighbourhood. 



" My eldeft daughter, the firft Cambrian ever inoculated 

 for the cow-pock, I have lately chriftened Vaccinia — an un- 

 alterable record of its introduction and by whom. 



" Ever yours, W. Tur ton/* 



INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 



On the 27th of Auguft the magnificent docks at Black- 

 wall, which, in (ize and accommodation to (hipping, ex- 

 ceed every thing that now exifts, were opened for the recep- 

 tion of the (hipping in the Weft- India trade. 



By eleven o'clock the various avenues and roads leading to 

 the lile of Dogs were crowded by multitudes, fome on horfe- 

 back, others in gigs and curricles, but the greateft number 

 were pedeiirians. The buitle and confuiion in repairing to 



Blackwall 



