to the Secretary of Stale, for the Year 1819. 351 



occurrences, with which it will be our duty to acquaint your 

 Lordship. 



The Reports transmitted to this Board Hkewise warrant the 

 conclusion, that wherever sniall-pox inoculation is abandoned, 

 and vaccination exclusively favoured or commanded, the most 

 striking illustrations of the value of the Jennerian discovery are 

 uniformlv afforded ; for, in addition to tiiose places mentioned 

 in former Reports, in which small-pox is now unknown, the 

 Board have received information that no case of that disease has 

 occurred since tiic year 1S04 at Shottesham in Norfolk, nor 

 since the year 1S17 i" the city of Gloucester. The boroughs of 

 Clonmcll and Newton Limavady in Ireland, and ^fothvey in 

 Carmarthensliire, \v\\.\\ the whole country for twenty miles around 

 it, are reported to have completely succeeded in the extirpation 

 of the small-pox ; and in the island of Guernsey, only one solitary 

 case of that fatal distemper is known to have occurred during 

 the last year. 



The career of vaccination appears, however, to have been less 

 brilliant in its native country than in some parts of the Conti- 

 nent of Europe, where the practice of it is enforced by legal en- 

 actments, and inoculation for siriall-pox is prohibited by severe 

 penalties. Under such regulations, it is affirmed that the small- 

 pox has ceased to exist in Denmark for the last eight years 5 

 and that the knowledge of this fact has now induced His Danish 

 Majesty to proclaim the same decrees in his West India co- 

 lonies. 



The Board are also informed, by a most intere'^ting communi- 

 cation from Dr. De Carro of Vienna, that similar decrees have 

 been pu!)lished in the Austrian dominions, and that small-pox is 

 now conlnied to that portion of the poor who by concealment 

 contrive to evade the Imperial ordinances. He announces, that 

 since the year 1791), when he gave the first example to the Con- 

 tinent of Europe by vaccinating his two elder sons, he has never 

 seen a single case to weaken his confidence in the efficacy of 

 that practice. 



An important letter, together with a treatise on this subject, 

 has al^o been transmitted to the Board from Dr. Krauss, an in- 

 telligent physician, who is charged with the superintendence of 

 vaccination in the circle of Rezat in Bavaria. He allirms, that 

 in that circle, coetaining lialf a million of people, small-po\ has 

 never occurred since the year 1807. 



If these facts be correctly reported to us, they would appear 

 to afford convincing proof, that the extinction of small-pox is 

 entirely within our own power. 



The testimonies of some of our correspondents in tiiis country 

 are by no means so favourable. They concur in showing, that 



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