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AX XII; : Intelligence and Miscellaneous Ap ticles. 
PROGRESS OF VACCINATION IN FRANCE. 
Pk central vaccine committee of Paris on the 12th of 
July last made their report upon the exertions made in France 
for the propagation of vaccine inoculation, during the Jast 
twelve months. The number of individuals vaecinated in 
42 departments during that period amounts to 125,992, 
which gives a total of nearly 400,000 for all France; and by 
supposing, as in the former year, the number of births at 
1,088,157, it follows that a third at least of the infants born 
last year in France have been vaccinated. 
Numerous tests have been tried in order to ascertain the 
preservative eficct of vaccination ; and whether inoculation 
for the small-pox was resorted to, or an intimate and habi- 
tual commerce between small-pox and vaccine patients, and 
the latter also subjected to the influence of variclous epi- 
demies, and even when all these three kinds of proofs were 
united together, the small-pox never had any effect upon 
those who had gone regularly through the vaccine infection. 
The most important result of the report of the committee 
is the certainty of the progressive diminution of mortality 
wherever vaccination was introduced, and the increase of 
mortality in those places where vaccination was neglected. 
New and fortunate experiments have been made upon the 
manner of simplifying still more the insertion of the matter, 
and also the best means of preserving the infectious sub- 
stance. 
The central committee have not confined themselves to 
the human species alone in their inquiries. They endea- 
voured to ascertain if vaccination introduced among sheep 
would preserve them from the scab. They found, however, 
that it is more advisable to inoculate these animals with 
scabby matter than to vaccinate them, although the latter 
process was often completely successful. 
The report concludes witht the names of those who have 
distinguished themsclyes by their zeal in promoting vacci- 
nation 
