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331 also contained would be an early consequence of the breaking up of this establishment. ander the same cover with those we have " It is our constant care to admonish those to whom we send lymph, of the propriety of taking adjust noticed. Some of these papers are of’ vantage of the opportunity of providing a further But it would seem, from the great interest; amongst others is the account’ incessant supply for themselves. which continue to be made to applications of the analysis of seventy-two specimens of that either our us, warnings are not sufficiently bread obtained from different bakers, and attended to, or what we believe to be the fact, from replies constantly made to us, it is impracticable examined chemically by MM. l’ordeu and the to keep up a continued supply any-where but in the Feneulle. Twenty of these specimens con- capital, where numerous appointed vaccinators assist and support each other. tained small quantities, and three a con" The result of another year’s experience is a considerable proportion, of the sulphate offirmation of the value of vaccination. We have evidence before us of persons being exposed to the

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severest trials of its power of protection in the midst of the contagion of the small-pox, with impunity; and though some constitutions do admit a secondary disease, yet this is almost always a safe one, though severe in some instances in its first attack, and it is not so common as the chicken-pox used to be after

small-pox given by inoculation. " We have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordobedient servants, RIAN SOCIETY " AND THE " NATIONAL ship’s " HENRY HRNRY HALFORD, (Signed) VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT." President of the Royal College of Physicians. " ROBERT BREE, BaLe, M.D., M.D., Censor. " " GEO. L. TUTHILL, M.D., Censor. To the Editor of TH E LANCET. " i " ROBERT ROBERT KEATE, KEA’M, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. " ‘ SIR,—Having observed in the Morning JOHN P. ViNCKNT, VINCENT, Herald of Tuesday, the 24th of May, the Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons. the of National EstablishVaccine " CLEMENT HUE, M.D., Registrar." Report ment, in which reference is made to the circumstance, that it is the intention of After noticing how extensively the Nagovernment to discontinue the institution, tional Vaccine Establishment has diffused I beg to offer a few remarks on the fallacy of the blessings of vaccination, the report, it the grounds stated in the report, why the will be perceived, proceeds :-" If Parliagovernment should not carry their intention ment should determine that enough has now been done to establish the superior into execution. merit of vaccination above every other be deemed it however, may Previously, most consonant with the desire by which security against the danger of small-pox, that it should be left henceforward to all upright men are influenced, not to mis- and interpret, to give the report itself, the same the discretion and the good sense of the nation to continue the practice from the renot being of great length. sources of individuals, such a determination "NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT. would find the country unprepared and unprovided with the means of defence, and "A Copy of the last Report from the National that a great mortality from small-pox would Vaccine Establishment to the Secretary of State be an early consequence of the breaking ap for theBo2ne Department. "To the Lord Viscozint Melbourne, Secretary of of this establishment." Statefor the Home Department, &c. Every reader of this would infer, that there ’,National Vaccine Establishment; exists no other institution for diffusing the March 14,1831. of vaccination but the " National " My LORD,-It has required all our indastry and blessings zeal to snpp)y the numerous demands which have Vaccine ;" that, if that passes away, vaceibeen made upon us for vaccine matter from all nation itself ceases (" The church is in danquarters of the empire since our last report. We ger " is no uncommon cry). But, must have furnished the means of protection tn the army No, Sir, for two and navy, to every county in England and Scotland, such a result happen-? to Ireland, to the Colonies, and, moreover, to several other institutions exist in the metropolis, uf the capitals of Euiope ; and nearly 12,000 of the the Royal Jennerian, and the London Vacpoor of the metropolis and its immediate neighbourhood have been vaccinated in the course of the last cine, both of which existed before the establishment of the National, that establishyear. "Whilst this affords an undeniable proof of the ment having, in a great measure, originated diffusion of and is a strong argugreat vaccination, the differences of opinion that prement for the value of this institution, it diminishes from our salislaction to be obliged to confess that, if vailed between Dr. Walker and other inocuParhament should determine that enough has now laters. When Mr. George Rose brought been done to establish the superior merit ofvaccina- forward in Parliament the establishment of tion above every other security against the danger ofsmall-pox,and that it should be left henceforward the National Vaccine Institution, the friends to Ute discretion and good sense of the nation to of the London Vaccine prepared a petition continue the practice from the resources of iudlvito the House of Commons by presented duals. sneh a determination would find the country unprepared and unprovided with the means of de- Sir Thomas Turton, which prayed that the fence, and that & great mortality from small-pox Parliament would not establish such an inPUBLIC CLAIMS OF

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