[ 72 ] 



XII. Intelligence and Miscellajieous Articles, 



On Vaccination. 



-•^N our xxxixth voUime, p. 159, \vc called the attention 

 of our readers to a melancholy historv of the ravages of 

 the sinall-pox in Norwich, as recorded in an Address to 

 the Corporation of Guardians of the Poor of that city, deli- 

 vered Jan. 6, 1810, by Mr. Rigbv ; from which it appeared 

 that at the close of the year ISO/, a poor woman in the 

 eruptive stage of the disease, having been brought to the 

 city in the London waggon, and the judicious means pro- 

 jiosed by him for preventing its spread being neglected 

 by those who had authority to carry ihcm into effect, a 

 great number of persons, probably more than twelve hun- 

 dred, caught the infection, of whom two hundred and three 

 died. Notwithstandinii the temporary failure of the endea- 

 vours of this benevolent and patriotic magistrate to per- 

 suade the corporation to adopt such necessary measures, 

 we have great pleasure in finding frem the following Nar- 

 rative *, that they have been at length induced, on a re- 

 appearance of the disease, to carry them into effect with 

 complete success. 



I HAVE much satisfaction in annexing the following ac- 

 count of the successful issue of my last application to the 

 Court of Guardians, on the subject of small-pox t> and in 

 recording the extensive benefit which has already resulted 

 to the city from the adoption of the simple and obvious 

 measures sugge^tcd by me ; and which, whether considered 

 with regard to the quantum of human life, in the first in- 

 stance, unquestionably saved bv it, or as having established 

 a practical fact, of no small importance, as it bears relation 

 both to the healing art and to the useful science of political 

 cEconomy ; or, further, as it may excite others to have re- 

 course to similar means of security against a loathsome and 

 destructive disease, cannot be uninteresting to humanitv. 



Having learned in July last (1812), that the small-pox 

 had, in the preceding Whitsun week, been introduced into 

 Acle, a small tovi-n about eleven miles from Norwich, he- 

 inc brought thilh;.'r by a young man from London, who 

 had been incautiously discharged from the Small-pox Ifos- 



* Appendix to " Fiirtlitr Facts relating to the Care of the Poor in the 

 City of Norwich, by Edward Rigby,Esq. F.L.S. Senior Surgeon ol" ihe Nor- 

 folk and Norwich Hosp'tal." 



f This wss the sixth time I had endeavoured to direct the attention of the 

 court to this important subject -. and tbt- ri-siilt should encourage every one 

 who advocates the cause of humanity t" persevere, even agaiiiit the most 

 discouraging (ipposition. 



pital. 



