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given to Drs. Pearfon, Nihell, and Nelfon, 
for their able Report. 
2. That this report be printed under 
their dire@tion. 1 
3. That the thanks of this meeting be 
given. to the whole of the medical eftablifh- 
ment for their gratuitous* fervices. 
Till the Report be printed, it may be in- 
terefting to our readers to lay before them 
an extract, relating to the effect of the new 
Inoculation, in diminifhing the mortality 
of the Small Pox ; concerning which, fuch 
contrary ftatements have been publithed by 
perfons either unacquainted with the fadts, 
or from motives of felf-interett. 
One of the objeg&s of this Inftitution has 
been to fyraith inftruations fer the Vaccine 
Praice,and thishas been done, byfhewing 
patients to vifitors and ftudents, as well as 
by public Jeétures, and al!o by writtenand 
printed papers. Accordingly our efta- 
blifhment has diffeminated the new Inocu- 
lation through many parts of the world. 
By this time, itsinftructions and matter 
have introduced the Vaccine Inoculation 
in New South Wales, as it did before in 
Paris, Vienna, &c. &c. 
Tt may be expected from the extenfive 
practice of Vaccination (this infitution 
alone, having vaccinated, and been the im- 
mediate means of vaccinating, 60,000 per- 
fons) that the fatality of the Smail Pox 
muft have been diminifhed. That dimi- 
nution, however, does not yet appear; for 
the bill of mortality in Londen reports 
1202 to have died in the year 1$03; whereas 
rr111 died in 1799; 522 only, in 1797; and 
1040, in 1795 and although the numbers 
have been greater in the intermediate years, 
yet ftill the laft year, viz. 1202, is not 
much Jefs than the mean number for each 
year, during any five years for haif a cen- 
tury pat. How it has happened that no 
diminution of moriality has been yet 
perceived, may eafily be underftood when 
it is confidered that the perfons inoculated 
for the Cow Pock, are chiefly thofe who 
weuld bave been inoculated for the natu- 
ral Smail Pox. Hence, hitherto Vaccine 
Inoculation, like Small Pox Inoculaticn, 
is only a benfit to individvals ; but the 
bene fit is very much greater than the 
Variolcus Inoculation, alihough the Vari. 
olous Inoculation by preventing the natur- 
al Smali Pox was, till the Vaccine Inocu- 
lation, the greateft benefit from phyfic. 
any pecuniary reward, on the contrary, they 
all are among the moft liberal fubfcribers, 
from themfelves and from their friends, as 
appears by the printed lift, 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
[Sept. 1, 
Prejudice, indclence, ignorance, want of 
opportunities, ftill occafion iroculation of 
either kind to be but partially adopted by 
fociety at large. How far laws might be 
eftablifhed or means be found out for every 
perfon within a certain period after birth 
being inoculated, cannot be difcuffed on 
this occafion, however important the que! 
tiom may be for the legiflature. 
The following ftatement was. delivered 
by Lord Petre, from the chair at the an- 
nual meeting; April 30, of the Governors 
and Friends of the Original Vaccine Pock 
Inftitution, No. 44, Broad-ftreet, Golden- 
f{quare. 
1. The grand obje& of this Inftitutions 
on its eftablifiment, a little more than four 
yeais ago, was to extinguith the Small 
Pox by fubfituting for it the inoculation 
of the Cow Pock ; but, however great the 
obligations ‘of the public were to Dr. 
Jenner, the promulgator of the leading 
practical fact in 1798, to Dr. Pearfon alfo 
In 1798 and to Dr. Woodville in 17995. 
for their inveftigations to jultify, the new 
Inoculation, fill a profeffed inftitution was 
wanting in order to fr extend, by gratu- 
itous inoculation, the hiftory of the Vac- 
cine Pock, of which comparatively but 
little was {till known, 
2. To diffufe the knowledge of the 
new practice. 
3. To preferve a fucceffion of pa- 
tients for matter for the ufe of the public. 
To what extent the firft of thefe dehigns 
may be judged from the Report publifhed 
in a former year, and from the papers dif- 
tributed containing dire&tions for inocu- 
lation, will be judged of furiher by 
the report this day read, and ordered to be 
printed. | 
With regard to the fecond part of this 
plan, the diffufing the knowledge of the 
new inoculation, the practice has been 
publicly carried on twice a week ever fince 
January, r800 ; at which a great number of 
practitioners and many fiudents have been 
prefent for inftru€tion. . 
Tnftituticns confcfi-dly upen a fimilar 
plan have been eflablifhed in other places, 
and infruétions for the practice have been 
diffeminated in every part of the world. 
With regard to the thud pat of the 
plan, the fucceffion and the fupply of 
matter, as might be fuppofed, the numbers 
inoculated during the years 1800 and 1201 
were not confiderable ; however, a regifter 
* Not one of the medical officers receive has been kept and, more or fewer cafes 
have been regiftered twice a week, from 
January, 1800, upto the prefent time, 
thereby affording a body of evidence of 
two thoufand patients, which have been 
fubjea - 
