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space of nine years, more than nine thousand persons have 
been effectually vaccinated; and that by a report received 
from Glasgow, it appears, that of fifteen thousand fivé 
hundred persons who have undergone vaccine inoculation 
in that city during the last ten years, no individual has 
been known to have been subsequently affected with small- 
pox. 
It is with a very different feeling that the board are in- 
duced to call your attention to the number of deaths from 
small-pox, announced in the bills of mortality of the year 
1810, amounting to 1,198, which, although great, is con- 
siderably less than it had becn previously to the adoption 
of that practice. 
The board are persuaded that this mortality has arisen 
from contagion having been propagated by inoculated per- 
sons, of the poorer class, whose prejudices against vacci- 
nation are kept alive by false and mischievous hand-bills, 
denouncing various imaginary and feigned diseases against 
all those who have undergone vaccination : and the board . 
have reason to believe, that these bills are issued by per- 
sons, in several parts of London, who derive emolument 
from small-pox inoculation. 
The board have been induced, by these considerations, 
to address the information contained in the preceding para- 
graphs to the committees of charity-schools; and to sub- 
whit to them the propriety of introducing vaccination into 
their respective establishments, and among the poor in 
general, 
Besides the duty of superintending the practice of vac- 
cination in London, they have been engaged in an exten- 
sive correspondence with several vaccine establishments in 
the provincial towns ; and they acknowledge with pleasure, 
the readiness with which many ofthese bodies have com- 
municated information. 
From these sources, They are enabled to state, that the 
practitioners of the highest respectability im the country 
have been earnestly engaged in promoting the practice of 
vaccination, by the weight of their authority and example : 
That in the principal county towns, gratuitous vaccination 
of the poor is practised, either at public institutions, or by 
private practitioners, on an extensive scale: That, among 
the superior classes of society In the country, vaccination 
is very generally adopted ; That the prejudices of the lower 
orders, excited against the practice by interested persons, 
still exist, but appear to be gradually yielding to a conyic- 
tion of its benefit. 
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