2tfi2 On the Progress and present State of 



from small-pox has occurred ; and it is worthy of remark, 

 that the individual had not heen vaccinated, in consequence 

 of a declaration oF the mother, that he had passed through 

 the small-pox in his infancy. Vaccination was introduced 

 into the Foundiing Hospital in the year ISOl ; and every 

 infint, soon after its admission, has since that period been 

 vaccinated. From the commencement of this practice to 

 the present time, no death has occurred from small-pox j 

 iand in no instance iia?. the preventive pov\ er of vaccination 

 been discredited, although many children, ar a test of its 

 efficacy, have been repeatedly inoculated with the matter of 

 small pox, and exposed to the influence of its contagion. 

 A similar success has attended the practice of vaccination 

 at the Lying-in Charity of Mancheaier, where, in the space 

 of nine years, more than nine thousand persons have been 

 effectually vaccinated, and secured from the small-pox. 

 The officers of the Vaccine Establishment in London, 

 through the medium of their correspondeincewithiTianysimi- 

 Jar establishments in the country, have learned, that practi- 

 tioners of the highest respectability are earnestly engaged in 

 promotino- the extension of the practice ; that, among the 

 superior classes of the people, vaccination is every where 

 generally adopted; and that, although the prejudices of the 

 ■lower orders, which have been excited by interested per- 

 sons, still exist, they appear to be gradually yielding to a 

 conviction of its benefits. This inference is likewise con- 

 firmed by the fact, that 23,362 charges of vaccine matter 

 have been distributed by the Establishment to various appli- 

 cants from all parts of the kingdom, which exceeds by 

 nearly one-third the number distributed in the preceding 

 year. 



Of tlie immense benefits resulting frotn the universal 

 adoption of vaccination in other countries, the accounts 

 from India have furnished the most interesting example. 

 The number vaccinated in the island of Ceylon, from the 

 I year 1S02 to .Tan. 1810, amounts to no less than 128,732 

 ]iersons ; and the small-pox has literally been exterminated 

 from the i<;iand. From the month of February 1S08 to the 

 last-mentioned date, the disease had not existed in any part 

 of the island, except in October 1809, wheii it was cairied 

 thither by a boat froin the Malabar coast : but, in this in- 

 stance, the contagion spread to only six individuals, who 

 had not been vaccinated, and was immediately arrested in 

 its progress, and disappeared. The medical superintendant- 

 general observes, that they have no apprehension that the 

 small-pox will ever spread epidemically in Ceylon, while 



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