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ately removed; for the narrow alleys and confined courts in 

 which most of the poor reside, must tend to concentrate conta- 

 gion, to render it extremely virulent, and eventually to dissemi- 

 nate this disease under its most malignant form. 



The Board selected Sophia Vantandillo as a proper example, 

 ©n account of the extent of the mischief occasioned by her mis- 

 conduct j and that this prosecution, followed by a lenient punish- 

 ment, may prevent any further wilful exposure of inoculated per- 

 sons, is its fervent wish. It at the same time prosecuted Mr. Bur- 

 net, who inoculated the child of Sophia Vantandillo, and who has 

 long circulated the most mischievous and offensive hand-bills, of- 

 fering to inoculate persons with small-pox gratuitously, and stig- 

 matizing vaccination as productive of the most loathsome diseases. 

 This practitioner, having suffered judgment to go by default, 

 has been recently sentenced by the Court of King's Bench to six 

 months imprisonment. 



The Board has a duty of the highest nature to perform ; — and 

 that it is resolved to discharge faitlifully and energetically. 



The Board has endeavoured to form a system, regular and 

 consistent in all its parts, conducing uniformly to one main end, 

 namely, the universal adoption of the practice introduced by the 

 immortal Jenner. It entertains the confident expectation that so 

 great a blessing will be no longer under-valued, and that the la- 

 bours of the good and powerful will not be rendered impotent by 

 the ignorant and the interested. It trusts that the wisdom of 

 I'arliament will not be set at nought by the most unfeeling and 

 worthless of the medical profession, and a disease even more de- 

 structive than the plague, allowed to be fostered by them with 

 impunity, and continually propagated among the unsuspecting 

 multitude of the united kingdom. 



The whole of the expenses incident to this establishment, for 

 the year 18 14, 'were defrayed by the vote of Parliament which 

 passed last year ; but the Board regrets, that in consequence of 

 the recent prosecutions and convictions of the persons mentioned 

 in this Report, and the measures adopted for the more effectual 

 extension of the practice of vaccination throughout the empire, 

 an addition of five hundred pounds to the annual grant will be 

 necessarj'. J. Latham, 



(I'lebident of tlie Royal College of Physicians) President. 



William Blizard, 

 Master of ihe lloval College of Surgeons. 



Henry Ainslie, M.D. James Haworth, M.D. 

 Tho-mas Hume, M.D. Henry James Cholmeley, M.D., 



Censors of the Royal Collejic of Physicians. 



Henry Cline, William Norhis, 



fJoveniorb of the Royal College of Siiri;coiis. 



By order of the Board, James Hervey, M.D. Registrar. 



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