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February 1814, it is computed that 200,000 persons have been 

 vaccinated ; and the medical practitioners unanimously declare, 

 that no instance has occurred of snuill-pox being contracted 

 after reguhir vaccination. 



In the island of Bourbon the calamitous effects of variolous 

 disease, and the bsneficial consequences of vaccination, though 

 detailed in a more abridged form, as forcibly corroborate the 

 utility of vaccine inoculation, from its having banished the small- 

 pox from that settlement. 



The National Vaccine Board cannot omit to direct your lord- 

 ship's attention to the meritorious conduct and zealous exer- 

 tions of private individuals, not of the medical profession, who 

 have not only vaccinated many hundreds every year; but who 

 have studiously maintained a supply of lymph in their districts 

 for the perpetual renewal of vaccination. It has particu- 

 larly noticed the ardent zeal of Mr. Ellis, of Rhos Farm, who 

 has vaccinated several thousands in North Wales, without a sin- 

 gle failure ; and also of the late Rev. Mr. Holt, and the Rev. 

 Mr. Finch, two of the earliest friends to the practice; who re- 

 sided, the one in Buckinghamshire, the other in a popidous part 

 of Lancashire, and who met with undeviating success;— a suc- 

 cess which puts to shame the neglifi,ent practice of some be- 

 longing to the medical profession. For, strange as it may ap- 

 pear, it is not the less true, that there arc many places in the 

 united kingdom, where, though vaccination is professed, it is in 

 effect never fairly practised. Lymph, indeed, has been pro- 

 cured from the National Establishment, but it would seem only 

 for present, and not prospective purposes ; as no pains have been 

 taken to preserve it by a succession of cases ; and that too, where 

 the population in many of the districts supplied, has exceeded 

 some thousands, and even in some of these where county hospi- 

 tals are established. 



In many instances the Board has had reason to lament, that 

 throiighout entire districts the iymjjh has been lost altogether ; 

 and when thus suffered to be lost, there must surely be just 

 grounds of suspicion that interested motives iiave actuated indi- 

 viduals to throw serious impediments in the way of the general 

 adoption of vaccination. 



In confirmation of this conclusion, the Board adds the plain 

 and unaffected iiarrative of a person who, humbly situated in life, 

 has in the true spirit of philanthropy been the instrument of dis- 

 pensing the benefits of vaccination to an extensive neighbour- 

 hood, and of preserving a regular supply of lymph, with which 

 many medical practitioners have been liberally furnished. 



Mr. W. .Jeffrey, of ("ambus-baron, near Stirling, alter reciting 

 the history of his practice, which from the f)urc3t motives of bc- 



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