388 Report-of the National Vaccine Establishment. 
increased much ; for in the greatest number of families, soon 
after the birth of a child, it is now almost uniformly vac- 
cinated. To this practice, it is believed, there are few ex- 
ceptions, except perhaps in the lowest rank. 
2d.—The taculty, from their, experience, are of opinion, 
that no bad effects can be justly attributed to vaccination. 
3d.-—The practice of vaccination is generally approved 
of here by the medical profession, and also by the public. 
4th.—Small-pox inoculation is almost uever practised 
here, except in a few rare instances after vaccination, to 
satisfy those who entertain any apprehension of the person 
vaccinated being still liable to the small-pox. 
Lastly.—The mortality from small-pox has greatly de- 
creased in this place since the introduction of vaccination, 
and also throughout Scotland. 
N.B. Since the middle of May 1801, till this date, the 
Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons have been in the practice 
of gratuitously vaccinating in their hall, once a week, all 
who come there with that view; and by a register which is 
kept, find the number vaccinated in that way, during the 
above period, amounts to 14,500; and, as far as is known, 
¥accination in all these has succeeded. 
I have the honour to be, sir, 
Faculty Hall, Glasgow, Your most obedient servant, 
i es Robert Freer, 
James Moore, Esq. Preses of the Faculty of Physicians 
Director of the National Vaccine and Surgeons, 
Establishment, London. 
Report from the Island of Ceylon. 
70 THE EDITOR OF THE CEYLON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 
Sir,—I Bec leave to subjoin, for mote general informa- 
tion, an abstract of the number of patients vaccinated in 
the different. districts on Ceylon, during 1809, amounting 
to 25,697; which added to 103,035, the number vacci- 
nated in former years, makes a total of 128,732 persons 
who have been officially reported to me by the respective 
superintendants and vaccinators, as having regularly passed 
through the vaccine disease since its first introduction into 
this island in 1802: besides a few others inoculated by in- 
dividuals not belonging to the Vaccination Establishment. 
Agreeable to the best information I have been able to 
obtain, the small-pox has not existed in any part of this: 
island since February 1908, till October last, when the dis 
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