418 
March last this cliild »received the 
small-poxein itsifull character;iand re- 
covered 5: the otherschildren were &x- 
posed day and night to the; contagion,’ 
during tie whole course of:the disease, 
and were notimany degree affected by 
it. Another family:(one that I repeat- 
edly solicited to vaccinate ogratui- 
tously,anditwasatlength peremptorily 
refused) of) five children, living under 
the same roof, received the coatavion 
from this child: and the whole of them 
laboured) under: the -confluent: small- 
pox, which proved fatal to two. chil- 
dren, and/a third lost the sight of one 
CY Alive gn 
Itappears; then, that the small-pox 
is peculiarly destructive to the human 
race;' and, instead of the number of 
deaths being decreased, as was in- 
tended by the practice of inoculation, 
they ‘have been increased, by the 
causes before alluded to, in the pro- 
portion of nearly one-fourth ; that, by 
the present system of vaccination, also, 
some children receive an effective, and 
othersa defective form of the disease, 
in which latter case the small-pox has 
repeatedly occurred; and, in conse- 
quence, many parents deny its preven- 
tive ‘influence, and altogether refuse 
its adoption, leaving their children to 
the hazard of receiving the natural 
smallpox. 
It would be well that the legislative 
authority co-operate with the universal 
desire of the people to exterminate the 
natural small-pox, (for I may pre- 
sume that no parents can wish to 
subject their children at any time to so 
dreadful a calamity,) and let it be 
enacted : 
ist, That every child, before it attain 
the age of six months, be either vaecinated 
or inoculated ; and, at such time within 
that period as may be deemed, by a régu- 
lar practitioner in medicine, most favoura- 
ble to the patient. 
and, That it be the duty of the profes- 
sion generally to urge the practice of vac- 
cinalion in the first instance; and, if it 
meet not the parents’ approbation, then to 
inoculafe, ; 
3rd. That'in many instances, where the 
parents object to, and deny the preventive 
inflaeuce of cow-pock, it. may be found 
practicable to vaccinate, and the disease 
haying, taken its proper course, then to 
“jnocniate the same individual, and, put the 
case to a decisive test of its merit, and that 
it be menmbent on the profession to adopt 
this mode of practice in every family that 
is not perfectly, satisfied with the cow- 
4ib, ‘That every individual, who has not 
Mr, Asbury’s Plan to exterminate the Naturat, Small-pox, [Sine % 
receiveda-proper medical, education, bey 
prohibited {rom practising, either vaceina-: 
tion or-inocwation.,)i;0% bese ede bide 
5th, That itbe the duty,of every practie, 
tioner ,to keep, ajournal, and note the 
progressive stages, .of yaccination, ) with 
proper dates to them,.as welljas.the name, 
of every; child) he -may)|; vaccinate; the: 
names, residence, and employ, (if apy) iof; 
its parents ; and that he also, render aa any 
nual report of them. to the\committee: of 
the Royal Jennerian Society. % srsisonaol. 
6th. That. a Committee, of \the Royal; 
Jennerian Society be appointedy m order, 
to receive the annual. reports of-all,praetir, 
tioners in England and. Wales,jand «to, 
register them according to the ,charagters: 
that have presented. themselves.in each in- 
dividual case. ix 33.02 
7th. That the minister of every )pavishy. 
and every dissenting minister, make,, or, 
cause to be made out, a quavterly, list,ef 
the children baptized, with;the names, 7re- 
sidence, and employ_of the parents, and 
that such list be presented quarterly to the 
select vestry, or appointed comiilittee of 
that parish, in which the ministers severally 
reside, , “IIresS 
8th. That the ministers of such conegE- 
gations, whose religious tenets do not ad- 
mit of infant baptism, make, or cause "to 
be made ont, a quarterly list of birtlis from 
their registers, and that stich list be pre 
sented quarterly to the select vestry, oF 
committee. of the parish in which; sach 
congregations are held. fOLTONM 
9th. That every medical. practitioner 
present to the select vestry, or eomnuttec 
of the parish in which he resides, a. quars 
terly list of all the children he may have 
vaccimated or inoculated, with the name of 
each child, aid names of its parents, their 
employ, and residence, * ioninis 
10th. That it be a part of the dnty ofa 
select vestry, (and in parishes having’ no 
select vestry, that a committee be ap 
pointed,) to receive the qnarterly lists of 
baptisms and births, as well'as the-lists of 
children vaccinated or inoculated from the 
medical practitioners; and that they com- 
pare such lists, in order to ascertain what 
children, within their parish, have.not re- 
ceived protection from tke natnral small- 
pox ; and, in default of sueh protecting in- 
fluence, to adopt such measures as may be 
deemed by them most suitable to the ac- 
complishment of that end. i (wc 
41th. That the removal, within the ‘pe- 
riod of six months from its birth; of‘ any 
child from ‘the parish in whieh ithas ‘been 
baptized, will appear to the select vestry, 
or committee, on engniry, afteh an; @xami- 
nation of the lists presented to; them; and 
o 
that: they report! 1dothe select! vestry,) or 
Gonimittee ‘of the parish: too whieh:othe 
childemay2beremoved} the arrival ofdsuch 
éhild Hiableto the natural isniallspoxurseih 
12th.‘ That, if any symptoms of small- 
pox 
