30 Report of the 
vaccination, in which all the faculty in the place, as well 
as the regimental and garrison surgeons, sirenuously ex- 
erted themselves. 
From the various details with which the Board have been 
favoured, we think it our duty to select one instance, as 
tending to show in a most pointed manner the power of - 
the vaccine lymph to arrest the contagion of the small- 
Ox. 
Four hundred negroes from Mosambique were on the Ist 
of March landed at Cape Town, one of whom, a woman, 
was on the 5th succeeding afflicted with the confluent small- 
pox in its most virulent form. This female was at that 
time inhabiting a large room, in common with 200 more 
of ber companions, not separated either by day or by night. 
On the report of this case the whole of these victims of 
«* avarice and cupidity,” as the surgeon terms them, were 
immediately subjected to vaccination, and on the following 
day removed to a small island (Paarden Island) at a httle 
distance from the town. A few days after this the woman 
fell a sacrifice to the most aggravated character of that 
dreadful disease. Of the aggregate number of negroes, 78 
individuals received the vaccine disorder, and underwent the 
regular course of its action. From these subjects the re- 
maining portion were vaccinated. ‘* They remained on the 
island 50 days, during which no further case of small-pox 
made its appearance, although they had been exposed to 
the whole strength of the contagious atmosphere, nor is 
there a single instance wherein any of this large proportion 
of persons became subject to the small-pox.” It is added 
by the professional gentleman who writes this account, 
that throughout the entire course of this arduous struggle’’ 
(the general vaccination) not a single instance had come to 
his knowledge of the failure of vaccination in protecting 
the individual from the small-pox, where the former was 
ascertained to have taken effect. 
At the Havannah, by the account written by Dr. Thomas 
Romey, Secretary to the Committee of Vaccination, 13,447 
persons were vaccinated in 1810; 9,315 of these persons 
had been vaccinated in the city of Havannah alone, with 
so good an effect, that for two years not a single person had 
been interred in the public burying-ground of that city who 
died of the small-pox, which befcre was a great cause of 
mortality in it. 
In the Caraccas, and in Spanish America, the small-pox 
bas been extinguished by vaccination. 
The accounts from yarious parts of Europe are almost as 
fayourable 
