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had been sheltered from the weather, and at- 

 .tended by physicians. 



"4. Vaccination seemed to possess a controlling- 

 power over it, as three blacks who had been 

 successfully vaccinated, although equally ex- 

 posed to the disease, escaped infection. 



"5. It was not confined to the aborigines, but 

 in one instance attacked a European in the 

 form of secondary small-pox, and proved fatal to 

 a child with symptoms resembling confluent 

 small-pox, 



"6. In several cases it occasioned blindness, 

 and left many of the poor blacks in a very de- 

 bilitated and helpless condition, with marks 

 which could not be distinguished from the pits 

 of small-pox on different parts of their bodies. 



"7. It was never observed to attack any of the 

 aborigines a second time, and it spread alarm 

 and consternation among them." Soon after 

 Dr. Mair's report was sent in to the Colonial 

 Government, an official notice was published in 

 the " Sydney Gazette," requesting parents to 

 have their children vaccinated. 



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