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escaped ; and I certainly look upon the immediate vaccination 

 ■which was performed to have been the means of protecting the 

 latter portion of them, as they were all fully exposed to the 

 influence of the Variolous contagion. 



" The persons principally attacked with Small-Pox through- 

 out the town, at this epoch, were of this description; — very 

 few cases occurred amongst the better or middling classes, and 

 of these there was not a single attested instance where the 

 party had been previously vaccinated. Amongst the black and 

 colored part of the population, this could not be so well 

 ascertained, but as far as could be traced, none who were 

 attacked had ever undergone Cow-Pox, with one single donbt/ul 

 exception of a Nurse in the Small-Pox Hospital at Paarden 

 Island, who became affected with a mild or modified form of 

 Small-Pox, and who stated that she had been previously 

 vaccinated. She recovered from this attack, but died in six 

 weeks afterwards of a Fever contracted in the same Hospital. 

 As a set off to this case however, and to show that Small- Pox 

 once gone through does not always secure immunity from a 

 second attack, it is stated in the weekly reports made from the 

 Fiscal's Office at that time, of the progress of the disease and 

 result of the cases, of date 10th of July, ' that the two last 

 persons who caught the infection were two elderly men, who 

 had never been vaccinated, but supposed they had had the 

 natural Small Pox at an early period of life;' and in the 

 report of the following week (17th July) it is stated that one 

 ■of these had died ; and that tlie other, who was conveyed to 

 the Small-Pox Hospital, from having every appearance of 

 Small-Pox, was afterwards found not to be afflicted with Small- 

 Pox, but with a sor< of Chicken-Pox ;" — which was probably 

 the modified Small-Pox, or what is called the Varioloid Disease. 



"To account, in some measure, for the Malays having been 

 the class that more generally suffered, although Vaccination 

 was already general, I must state, that they had a very strong 

 -prejudice against the Cow-Pox, and I know it to be a fact, that 

 when government insisted on their being vaccinated, they have 

 been seen to suck each others arms on quitting the Vaccine 

 Institution, to endeavour to do awav with the effects of the 

 Virus; but this prejudice has gradually died away, and they 

 now attend the Institution as willingly as any other class of 

 society. 



" With regard to persons who have been vaccinated here in 

 it'Jancy, and afterwards exposed to Variolous contagion, a 

 number are reported to have taken Small-Pox when they have 

 gone to Europe for education, &c. but to have had it in a very 

 mild or modified degree — of these I personally know eight, and 

 I have heard of several others who became attacked in a similar 

 way on going to India; but of those who were above four 



