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eise was brought to Jaffnapatnam by a country boat from 
Quilon, on the Malabar coast. The contagion spread to a 
tew individuals who had not been vaccinated in the Pettah 
of Jaffnapatnam, and by means of a civil prisoner, was in- 
troduced into the jail at that place; but its progress there 
was immediately arrested by the removal of the infected 
persons, and the indiscriminate vaccination of all the other 
prisoners. 
By a late report from Mr. Stutzer, superintendant of vac- 
cination at Jaffnapatnam, it appears there were only six 
individuals ill of the small-pox im that district ; and it has 
found its way to no other part of the island, except Putlam, 
where a coolie from Jaffna was taken ill with small-pox in 
December last, but has since recovered, without commu- 
nicating the disorder to any other person. 
The vaccine disease has now been so extensively diffused 
throughout this island, that while the inoculations continue 
so numerous as at present, we can bave no reason to ap- 
prehend that the contagion of small-pox will ever spread 
epidemically in any part of the British possessions on Cey- 
lon; and its oceasional appearance here has the good effect 
of proving the preservative efficacy of the vaccine, and of 
rousing the natives from their apathy on the subject, as ex- 
emplified at Jaffnapainam, where 1,830 people have been 
inoculated during the last two months, and among them 
several Bramins, men and-women, who had hitherto de- 
elined submitting tothe operation. 
I shall only add, that with a view of proving the perma- 
nency of the preservative effieacy-of cow-pox, and the con- 
tinuance of the purity efithe\virus onsthis island, Mr. Stut- 
zer has, at my request, in November and December last, 
inoculated with éivalE pow matter several patients who had 
passed through the vaccine disease;in 1804 and in 1809, all 
of whom have resisted, the.cobtagion, .,1; + 
., have the honone tobe, sir, 
Tale Fa Your obedient, servant, 
' Colonie; 24th Jan, 1810, Thomas | thristie, 
Medica} Sup. Generals 
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