64 Seport of the National Vaccine Establishment. 



The stationary and extraordinary vaccinators must reside in 

 London, or the suburbs ; but the corresponding may live at any 

 distance, or in any part of the world. 



The official communications from the Medical Colleges of 

 Edixiburgh, GlasjPT'i'-, and Dublin, evincing their confidence in 

 %'accia».tioii, and the annihibtiou of small-pox in the settlements 

 of the Cape of Good Mope and ot Cey;on, by its introduction, as 

 formerly reported, have been insufficie:;t to convince some in- 

 dividuals of the security against the infection of small-pox ; but 

 it is to b : hoped that ^he strong additional facts hereafter stated 

 win produce tiie fullest conviction of its benefits in their minds. 



From tha official documents transmitted by the Right Hon. 

 the Secretary of State for Foreign Aftairs, to this Board, re- 

 specting the effects of vaccination in the islands of Mauritius 

 and Bourbon, it appears that t! e Inhabitants have been secured 

 against the visitacion of one of the severest scourges incident to 

 the huma'i race, as the se(]uel shows. In the year 1728, the 

 small-pox <wept off nearly one-half of the population ; in 17^6, 

 about one-fourth ; in 1771 and 1772, it occasioned a compara- 

 tively less, though very great mortality ; and in 1/92 it destroyed 

 one-third ; and of those who survived the disease, one-third 

 lingered out a short and miserable existence, afflicted with dropsy, 

 marasmus, consumption, &c. It is worthy of remark, that in 

 three times out of the four, the disease was introduced by slave 

 sliijjs. Let the contrast now be drawn between the introduction 

 of variolous infection and vaccine inoculation. 



In 1802, vaccination was introduced from the British posses- 

 sions in India, but its general use was prevented by the preju- 

 dices of tlie people, and the lymph, after a short time, could not 

 be procured. In 1805, it was re-introduced, and the French 

 govermnent, seeing the necessity of regulations, framed some ac- 

 cordingly; but vaccination was only partially adopted, for it did 

 not exist in many parts of the island when the British took pos- 

 session of it. In 1811, the small-pox re-appeared in the island, 

 and about 220 persons became infected, of whom thirty died. 

 The alarm excited by the progress of this disease, prompted his 

 excellency Ciovernor Farquhar to issue his mandate, compelling 

 ail the inhabitants to he immediately vaccinated; which energetic 

 measure at once arrested the progress of small-pox. 



In 181.3 an opportunity was offered of putting to the test the 

 security of vaccination, by a slave (who came from the island of 

 Madagascar, and was afilicted with the confluent form of small- 

 pox) having- been lauded and received into the hospital ; many 

 slaves and othc- vaccinated persons were exposed to the infec- 

 tion, but no one became the subject of the disease. 



From tiie introduction of vacinnation in 1802, to the 28th of 



February 



