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per; Ihe public having already had an earnest, that their 

 benefactions will be ceconomically yet efficaciously employ- 

 ■cd by the present managers." 



ROYAL JENNERIAN SOCIETY. 



On Thursday the 1 ^th of May, the anniversary of the 

 institution of this society was celebrated at the Crown and 

 Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. His grace the duke of Bed- 

 ford was in the chair. 



After dinner was over, the health of the king, 8cc. drank, 

 Mr. Benjamin Travers rose and stated the progress of the 

 vaccine inoculation. He mentioned, that for ten years pre- 

 vious to the year 1802, the annual average of deaths by the 

 small pox, within the bills of mortality of London, were 

 at the rate of 1850, and that within the last year the deaths 

 had not amounted to 1000. The expenses of this society, 

 in the establishment of a central and other houses for the 

 purposes of the institution, amounted to a considerable sum 

 in the first instance, and would annually require the expen- 

 diture of lOOOl. ; to provide for which, the trustees at pre- 

 sent had only a fund of 400l. a year in the stocks and in sub- 

 scriptions. After describing the salutary influence of the 

 discoverv of Dr. Jenner in other countries, and particularly 

 in the East Indies, Mr. Travers read over the names of the 

 diflerent subscribers, and deHvcred an interesting and forci- 

 ble appeal to the feelings of the company, to excite them to 

 use thfcir utmost endeavours to augment the resources and 

 propagate the views of the society." He concluded by pay- 

 ing a" verv handsome compliment to Dr. Jenner, whose 

 name he observed would flourish when nations yet unborn 

 would be forgotten. 



Excgit nionumentum aerc perennius. 



Several persons bore testimony to the efficacy of the vac- 

 cine inoculation, in preventing the propagation of the small 

 pox ; among whom were Dr. Ring and Mr. Rowland IIiH. 

 The latter stated that he himself, according to the directions 

 of Dr. Jenner, had inoculated above 1600 persons within 

 the last year, and that the effects desired had been produced 

 upon the whole. Nothing, he said, could be more simple 

 than the operation, which he was convinced did not even re- 

 quire the interposition of any medical gentleman in the first 

 instance: but should such interposition be afterwards rc- 

 <^uired, which he did not think likely, he was sure none of 

 the honourable profession would hesitate to afford such as- 

 sistance to the poor gratis. 



