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than by quoting again from Plunibe, who states tliat 

 " up to 1812^ when vaccination had been ten years fully 

 employed, and inoculation at the same time not materi- 

 ally controlled, the average deaths from small-pox were 

 64 out of every 1000. From 1812 to 1821 inclusive, 

 40^-; and for the eight years ending with 1829, 

 34^ *." 



And again, when discussing the question of small- 

 pox succeeding the vaccine disease, he avers, that " the 

 practice of vaccination has been brought in a very few 

 years to such a degree of perfection, that in competent 

 hands the failures are extremely rare. In the year 1813, 

 a report was pubhshed by the Imperial Institution of 

 France, stating that 2,671,662 subjects had been pro- 

 perly vaccinated in France, of whom only seven cases 

 had afterwards taken the small-pox. 



" In England no registers have been kept of so vast 

 a number ; but the success of some charitable institu- 

 tions proves, that, when vaccination is properly con- 

 ducted, there will be very few failures. In the Found- 

 Hng Hospital of London this practice w^as introduced 

 in the year 1801 ; and though the children are some- 

 times intentionally exposed to the infection of small- 

 pox, yet in sixteen years only one shght case has 

 occuiTed in which a variolous eniption was suspected. 

 In the York Military Asylum there has been the same 

 success. The National Vaccine Establishment was 

 founded by Government in the year 1809 ; and in eight 

 years, to January 1817, there had been vaccinated by 

 the surgeons of that institution in London and its vi- 

 cinity 34,369 persons. And although the small-pox 



* Plmnbe on Vaccination, p. 45. 

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