33 | Report of the 
Jennerian system has not been circumscribed by popular 
prejudice, the small-pox is no longer known ; and the re- 
gisters exhibit strong evidence of consequent increasing po- 
pulation. The report concludes with expressing great hopes 
that this pestilential disorder will ultimately disappear from 
society. 3 
This object will doubtless be greatly forwarded by the 
line of conduct adopted by the Royal College of Surgeons 
in London; in which city, notwithstanding the artifices 
practised, and the falsehoods * even propagated to discretlit 
vaccination, it is even now gaining ground. The Royal 
College of Surgeons have resolved not to inoculate with 
variolous matter. The College of Surgeons of Dublin have 
formed the same resolution. In Gloucestershire sixty-three 
surgcons, convinced of the pernicious tendency of inocula- 
tion to support and propagate the small-pox, associated, and 
pledged themselves to decline the practice of it. 
The National Vaccine Establishment have recommended 
the imitation of such examples to the members of the pro- 
fession in every part of these dominions, and they have no 
doubt but that the good effects of such advice’ will soon ap- 
pear, in the diminished mortality and the increased popus 
Jation of the country. 
It may be proper to add, that the surgeons at nine sta- 
tions of this metropolis reposted to us on the 14th of last 
January, that they had no complaint of any person vacci- 
nated by them having afterwards had the small-pox. 
The Board have again the pleasure of stating, that the 
money granted by Parliament during the last session has 
been sufficient to defray the expenses of the year 1812; 
and they are of opinion that the same sum will be adequate 
to the expenditure of the current year. 
Fr. Miuman, President. 
By Order of the Board, 
James Hervey, M.D. Register. 
# In the bills of mortality for the last year, the death of two persons was 
said to have been occasioned by the cow-pock ; but, upon investigation by 
the Board of the National Vaccine Establishment, they were found to have 
died from other-causes, and the assertion was proved to be without foun- 
dation. 
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