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nevolence he commenced under circumstances not necessary to 

 be detailed, thus proceeds in his conmiunication to the Board : — 

 ^' Vaccine inoculation has acquired such a character for ten miles 

 round where I dwell, that the natural small-pox is not heard of. 

 In this village there is not one child which has not been vacci- 

 nated, (excepting in two families,) so universal has the practice 

 become ; and it is remarked by the inhabitants of the village, 

 that the children are more numerous owing to their being vacci- 

 nated ; and among the children that I have vaccinated, I chal- 

 lenge all the country round to produce any instance in which the 

 inoculation failed to preserve them from variolous contagion, 

 notwithstanding their being exposed to lying in bed, eating and 

 drinking with those infected with the small-pox. I am much 

 surprised when I hear of s^uch backwardness in and about Lon- 

 don to the performance of such a salutary benefit to the human 

 race. If any one should speak against it in any village, or in the 

 large parish of St. Ninians, he would expose himself to the con- 

 tempt of all the people." 



The National Vaccine Board has it in contemplation to enrol 

 the names of such steady and exemplary friends, under the deno- 

 mination of Honorary Vaccinators, as they cannot with propriety 

 be included in the other orders ; and it hopes to receive from this 

 class a continuance of their valuable communications Thougli 

 it cannot be supposed that any stimulus is required to incite the 

 active labours of such highly commendable persons, yet the Board 

 cannot in justice silently pass over such zeal without giving some 

 signal mark of its approbation. 



Notwithstanding the accumulated and accumulating proofs of 

 the utility of vaccination, there is reason to apprehend that va- 

 riolous inoculation will still be persisted in, whereby the baneful 

 effects of small-pox must be continually propagated. 



The Board has with regret to observe, that although the pu- 

 nishment of three months imprisonment was awarded against 

 Sophia Vantandillo, for carrying her child whilst under the influ- 

 ence of small-pox through the public streets, (which infected 

 many others, eight of whom died,) the unwarv and uninformed 

 are still enticed by the hand-bills of shameless empirics, to sub- 

 mit their children to variolous inoculation. It is however yet to 

 be hoped, that the above sentence so recentlv passed bv the 

 Court of King's Bench, which the Board of the Vaccine Esta- 

 Idishment has taken every method of promulgating, may produce 

 considerable benefit. But if inoculation of small-pox be per- 

 mitted, the promiscuous intercourse of the infected with society 

 at large, ought to be as speedily as possible prevented, and a re- 

 ceptacle* established, to which the diseased should be immerii- 



• Tlie Small Pox Hospital has been lately purchased, for the use of the sick 

 poor afflictcil with fevers. 



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