1826.] Monthly Medical Report. 209 



was unmodified and severe, and in several instances fatal; but tlie evidence of vacci- 

 nation was here, for the most part, very defective, and the friends of tlve patient had, not 

 "unfrequently, doubts in their own minds as to the reality of tlie presumed vaccination. 

 Upon tlie whole, the evidence wliich the hospital-records of 1 825 presented was com- 

 I)lete, as to the positive benefits of vaccination. It is a most striking and im))ortant 

 fact, that while small-pox was thus spreading its contagion in all parts of London, the 

 antidote kept pace with the bane. 400.3 persons were vaccinated at the Small- Pox 

 Hospital alone during the course of 1825, being about one fifth of the total numbers 

 bom in London', and exceedingly above 600 — the greatest number hitherto on the books 

 of the establishment. This fact appears to the reporter to be quite decisive in favor of 

 vaccination. The applications for vaccination would not thus have increased, unless 

 the public were satisfied with tlie kivd and degree of protection which that process 

 gives against the most formidalile of all disease. 



The reporter has been thus minute in detailing the occurrences of the last year in 

 reference to vaccination, because the subject always excites public interest, and deserv- 

 edly so, whether regard be had to national credit or individual satcty. lie has only to 

 add, that since the setting in of the December frosts small-pox has ceased to exist as 

 an epidemic. Measles has made its appearance within the last fortnight, and will pro- 

 bably have gained a sulTicient lieight, previous to his next communication, to justify the 

 reporter in alluding particularly to it. George Guegory, M. D. 



8, Upper John Street, Golden Square, January 22, 1826. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



Cotton. — The public sales have thrown a great damp on tlie market ; 699 bales fair 

 Surats sold at 5id, being a farthing under the market prices, and some private purchases 

 are nearly at tlie same decline ; about 200 Pcrnams have sold at about 1 2rf : generally the 

 Cotton market is very heavy, and the accounts from Liverjjool are equally unfavourable. 



Sugar. — The market has been uncommonly unfavourable. We quote our reduction 

 at Is. on all description of Muscovados ; browii Jamaicas 60s. — the other browns at same 

 price, without a demand. The refiners have evinced an increasing disposition to effect 

 sales ; brown lumps 80s. ; the wholesale purchasers have considerable parcels of fine goods 

 at low prices— several sales of crushed have been effected. — Molasses, 29s. to 29s. 6d. — 

 In Foreign and East-India Sugars, there are no sales by private contract. 



Coffee — At public sale, Demerara and Berbice Coffee sold heavily and rather lower; 

 Jamaica ordinary Coffee maintains the late advance. By private contract, fine ordinary 

 and Brazil has sold at 57s. and good St. Domingo, 68s. At public sale 1907 bags 

 sold at good prices ; ordinary Samarang at 52s. to 53s ; pale Cheribon at 5-1*. to 58s. 

 per cwt. 



Rum, Brandy, and Hollands. — Tiie alteration of the laws continues to interrupt trade ; 

 the rectifiers were stopped from using Rum and raw sjiirits at the same time ; they are 

 obliged to go through tlie process separately. The demand for Rum, -which met with 

 the interruption we have stated, is again rather renving ; under proofs may be quoted at 

 2s. 3d. to 2s. id. per gallon. Brandy is held with much firmness for higher prices, but 

 they have not yet been realized. Hollands Geneva is also held firmly, on account of the 

 frost preventing further supplies. 



Irish Provisions are at nominal quotations, die weather having set in severely is favour- 

 able for Butter. 



Tobacco. — At public sales, about 200 hogsheads sold ; ordinary Virginia at 4rf. to 

 4^'/. per lb. ; Leaf od. to 6d. The foreign buyers in the market have not made any 

 purchases. 



Tallow and Hemp — The market for Tallow is improving ; the nearest price to day is 

 S7s.— Hemp .£93. 10s. per ton. 



Course of Foreign Exchange. — Amsterdam, 12.8. — Rotterdam, 12. 9.— Antwerp, 12.9. 

 — Hambuig, .37. 4.— Altonii, 37. 5.— Paris, 25. 40.— Bourdeaux, 25. 65.— Berlin, 7. 0.— 

 Fi-ankfort on the Main, ex mo. 155.— Petersburg, 9J — Vienna, 10. 20. — Trieste, 10, 



20 Madrid, 36*.— Cadiz, .36i.— Barcelona 35.— Seville, 35f.— Gibraltar, 31.— 



Leghorn, 48^. — Genoa, 43j — Naples, 39i. — Palermo, 120. — Lisbon, 51. — Oporto, 51*. 

 Rio Janario, 45i. — Bahia, 48. — Buenos Ayres, 43?. — Dublin, 9 per cent. — Cork, 9 per 

 cent. 



BuUion peroz. — Foreign Gold, ^3. 17s. 6</. — Silver in bars, standard, 5s. O^d. 

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