2fj0 Progress of 
charges of Ivw'-ph distributed, above that 
of the preceding year. 
They fiave further to report, that no 
case of failure has occurred, in any indi¬ 
vidual vaccinated by the surgeons of the 
nine stations, since tlie comuieneeinent 
of this establishment; that the few in¬ 
stances of failure, submitted from otlier 
quarters to the investigation of this board 
in the last year, have been asserted with¬ 
out sufficient proof; that sucli reports of 
failure as have been received from the 
country have been ascertained to rest 
oporv iiiip<jrfect evidence. 
They have great satisfaction in being 
able to state tile favourable result of vac¬ 
cination in the Royal Military Asylum 
for the children of soldiers, and in the 
Poundling Hospital. At the establish¬ 
ment of the former of these charities, in 
the year 180S, vaccination was iniro- 
eluced, by order of government; and it 
continues to be practised at the present 
time. Ouring the whole of this period, 
this institution, which contains more 
than eleven hundred children, has lost 
but one of them by small pox, and that 
individual had not been vaccinated, in 
consequence of having been declared by 
the mother to have passed through the 
small pox in infancy. In the latter in¬ 
stitution, no death has occurred by small 
pox since the introduction of vaccination 
in the year 1801, from which period 
every child has been vaccinated on its 
admission to the charity; and in no in¬ 
stance has the preventative power of vac¬ 
cination been discredited, although many 
of the children liave been repeatidly in¬ 
oculated with the matter of small pox, 
and been submitted to the influence of 
its contagion. 
They have also the satisfaction of being 
able to state, that similar success has at¬ 
tended the practice of vaccination at the 
Tving-in Charity of Manchester, where, 
in the space of nine years, more than 
nine thousand persons have been effec¬ 
tually vaccinated; and that, by a rejiort 
received from Glasgow, it appears tiiat, of 
fifteen thousand flve hundred persons who 
have undergoi'.e vaccine incculation in 
that city, during tlie last ten years, no in¬ 
dividual has been known to have been 
subsequently affected with small pox. 
It is with a very different feeling that 
the Board are induced to call your atten¬ 
tion to the number of deaths from small 
pox, announced in the bills of mortality 
of the year 1810, amounting to 1,198, 
whichj although great, is considerably 
^■^acchiation^ [Oct. I, 
less than it had been, previously to the 
adoption of that practice. 
The Board are persuaded that this 
mortality has arisen from contagion ha¬ 
ving been propagated by inoculated per¬ 
sons, of the poorer class, v\hose preju¬ 
dices against vaccination are kept alive 
by false and mischievous hand bills, de¬ 
nouncing various imaginary and feigned 
diseases against all tliose who have un¬ 
dergone vaccination: and the Board have 
reason to believe that these bills are is¬ 
sued by persons, in several parts of Lon¬ 
don, who derive emolument from small 
pox inoculation. 
The Board have been induced, by 
these considerations, to address the in¬ 
formation contained in the preceding pa¬ 
ragraphs to the committees of Chanty- 
schools; and to submit to them, the pro¬ 
priety of introducing vaccination into 
their respective establishments, and 
among the poor in general. 
Besides the duty of superintending the 
practice of vaccination in London, they 
have been engaged in an extensive cor¬ 
respondence with several vaccine esta¬ 
blishments in the provincial towns; and 
they acknowledge, vvitli pleasure, the rea¬ 
diness with which many of these bodies 
have communicated information. 
From these sources they are enabled 
to state that the pracdlioners of the high¬ 
est respectability in the country have 
been earnestly engaged in promoting the- 
practice of vaccination by the weight of 
their authority and example; that in tlie 
principal country towns, gratuitous vac¬ 
cination of the poor is practised, either at 
public institutions or by private practi¬ 
tioners, on an extensive scale: that, 
among the superior classes of society in 
the country, vaccination is very generally 
adopted: that the prejudices of the 
lower orders, excited against the practice 
by interested persons, still exist, but ap¬ 
pear to be gradually yielding to a convic¬ 
tion of its benefit. 
The information received from Scot¬ 
land is of a very favourable nature, and 
it appears, from the reports of the Col¬ 
lege of Pliysicians, the College of Sur¬ 
geons of Edinburgh, and of tlie Faculty 
of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 
that tlie practice of vaccination is uni¬ 
versal among the higher orders of society ; 
and that, in the opinion of these learned 
bodies, the mortality from small pox has 
decreased, in proportion as vaccination 
has advanced, in that part of the united 
kingdom. 
Thfi 
