Report of the National Vaccine Establishment. 385 
The information received from Scotland is of a very 
favourable nature, and it will appear from the annexed Re- 
ports of the College of Physicians, the College of Sur- 
geons of Edinburgh, and of the Faculty of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Glasgow, that the practice of vaccination 1s 
universal among the higher orders of society ; and that, in 
the opinion of these learned bodies, the mortality from 
small-pox has decreased in proportion as vaccination has 
advanced in that part of the united kingdom. 
The Reports of the Vaccine Establishment istituted at 
Dublin, under the patronage of the Lord Lieutenant, state, 
that vaccination continues to make progress in that city, 
and in Ireland generally ; and that the prejudices against it 
are subsiding. 
The board have also received very favourable accounts of 
the progress of vaccination in India; and they have the 
honour to subjoin a Statement, from which it appears, that 
by vaccination the ravage of small-pox has been repeatedly 
prevented, and the disorder exterminated in the Island of 
Ceylon. | 
The board, guided by the inferences which facts re~ 
ported to them from undoubted authority and actual obser- 
vations have furnished, declare their unabated confidence 
in the preventive power of vaccination, and their satisfac- 
tion with the gradual and temperate progress by which this 
practice 1s advancing ; that the local and constitutional ma- 
ladies, which frequently follow the small-pox, rarely (if 
ever) succeed to vaccine inoculation ; that it produces nei- 
ther peculiar eruptions nor new disorders of any kind; 
and that they are ef opinion, that by perseverance in the 
present measures, vaccination will in a few years become 
generally adopted. 
The board have great pleasure in stating that the money 
granted by parliament during the last session has been 
sufficient to defray the expenses of the year 1810; and 
they are of opinion that the same sum will be adequate to 
the expenditure of the current year. 
By order of the Board, L. Pepys, 
James Hervey, Register. President. 
Apprenp1x to the Revort from the National Vaccine 
a _ Establishment ;—viz. 
The Report of The College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 
The Report of The College and Corporation of Surgeons, 
Edinburgh. 
Vol. 37. No. 157, May 1811, Bb The 
