LXVI. Report from the Vaccine EsTABLISHMENT, 1811. 
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To the Right Hon. Ricuarp Ryver, principal Secretary of 
° State, Home Depariment, &c. Sc. &e. 
National Vaccine Establishment, March 7, 1811. 
Stir, Tas Board of the National Vaccine Establishment 
have the honour of submitting to your consideration a 
statement of their proceedings during the year 1810. 
They have to report to you, that the surgeons of the nine 
stations established in London have vaccinated during the 
last year 3,108 persons, and that 23,362 charges of vaccine 
lymph have been distributed to various applicants from all 
parts of the kingdom; being an excess of nearly one-third 
in the number of persons vaccinated, and in the number of 
charges of lymph distributed, above that of the preceding vear., 
They have further to report, that no case of failure has 
occurred, in any individual vaccinated by the surgeons of 
the nine stations, since the commencement of this establish- 
ment; that the few instances of failure, submitted from 
other quarters to the investigation of this board in the last 
year, have been asserted without sufficient proof ; that such 
reports of failure as have been received from the county, 
have been ascertained to rest upon imperfect evidence. 
They have great satisfaction in being able to state the 
favourable result of vaccination in the Royal Miltary 
Asylum for the Children of Soldiers ; and in the Foundling 
Hospital. At the establishment of the former of these 
charities, in the year 1803, vaccination was introduced, by 
order of government; and it continues to be practised at 
the present time. During the whole of this period, this 
institution, which contains more than eleven hundred chil- 
dren, has lost but ove of them by small-pox, and that in- 
dividual had not been vaccinated, i, consequence of having 
been declared by the mother to have passed through the 
small-pox in infancy. In the daffer institution, 20 death 
has occurred by small pox, since the introduction of vac~ 
cination in the year 18013 from which period, every child 
has been vaccinated on its admission to the charity ; and 
in no instance has the preventive power of vaccination been 
discredited, although many. of the children have been re- 
peatedly inoculated with the matter of small-pox, and been 
submitied to the influence of its contagion. 
They have also the satisfaction of being able to state, 
that similar success has attended the practice of vaccina- 
Hon at the Lying-in- Charity at Manchester, wnere, 1D the 
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