74 On Vucchiation. 



The court met on the 13lh of August 1812, ancl was 

 well alteniied. I stated the tact of the small-pox being in 

 the citv — that I was convinced there were more than a 

 thousand poor children in it liable to take the infection — 

 that vaccination was the most obvious, practicable, and 

 efficacious means of securing thcin — that f had reason to 

 believe the prejudices of the poor against it had 'much sub- 

 sided * ; which belief, derived, in souse degree, frotri my 

 own intercourse with ihent, had been much strcngtliened 

 by Mr. Deacon's recent report ; and wishing this favoura- 

 ble disposition of the poor lo l)e taken advantage of, I sug- 

 gested the policy of increasing the motive to their consent 

 to vaccination, l)y a small pecutiiary gratification ; and as 

 a further means of preveniuig the more immediate com- 

 munication of the disease from those who might then la- 

 bour under it, I recommended that the regulations sug- 

 gested at Chester, many years ago, by Dr. Haygarth, 

 might be adopted. After a candid discussion, the unani- 

 mous resolution of the court was made known by the im- 

 mediate publication of the following paper: — 



*' City of Nunvicli, (iiul County nf the same. 



" At a special court of the governor, deputy governor, 

 assistants, and guardians of the poor, in the said city and 

 county of Norwich, and liberties of the sarpe, held at the 

 new Hall, in the said city, the thirteenth day of August, 

 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 

 twelve, to take into consideration the best means of pre- 

 venting the spread of the small- pox, which has made its 

 appearance in this city ; 



'• Resolved — That the following Regulations to prevent 

 the spread of the small-pox be printed and circulated, to- 

 gether with the last Report of the National Vaccine Esta- 

 blishment, printed by order of the House of Commons; 

 and that a room in the workhouse should be set apart for the 

 reception of any person who may be infected with the small- 

 pox, and who may be consenting to be removed thither. 



*' First. — Suficr no person who has not had the small- 

 pox or cow-pox to come into the infectious house. No 

 visitor, who has ?ny communication with persons liable to 

 the distemper, should touch or m down on any thing in- 

 fectious. 



* 1 have ever lieen convinceo, wlien time and repeated experiment had 

 unequivocally estaljlir.hod the c-tficacy of vaccination, and the poorer classes 

 had fairly vitne^sed t!ie s-ecurity it give> against the smaii-pox, that tlieir 

 prejiidices rc-bpeclirg it v/ould cease, and Jthcy would as readily avail them- 

 selves of this " kind jjift of Provideiire" as otlicr cl.'.sici have done and who 

 have adopted it csrlier only liecau?e they were sooner within the reach of 

 that infiinnritio:i, aiui iho;'j facts, which v/ere equally necessary to their 

 foiiviciioa. " Second, 



