Volume 1

A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain, and to introduce general inoculation : to which is added, a correspondence on the nature of variolous contagion, with Mr. Dawson [et al.] and on the best means of preventing the small-pox, and promoting inoculation at Geneva, with the magistrates of the Republick.

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.
Date:
1793
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Credit: A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain, and to introduce general inoculation : to which is added, a correspondence on the nature of variolous contagion, with Mr. Dawson [et al.] and on the best means of preventing the small-pox, and promoting inoculation at Geneva, with the magistrates of the Republick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A very judicious difcourfe was preached and publifhed by the Rev. W. Turner of New Caftle upon Tyne, to promote the periodical inoculations not amount to the fifty guineas, which are now paid for thofe who have the fmall-pox naturally. But, alas! thefe fifty guineas are but a fmall part of the real charge and inconvenience produced by this dreadful malady. Its' almoft conftant effett is a permanent augmentation of the parifli expenditure. If a labourer dies, his family muft be fupported. If a mother is loft, the children muft be removed to a work-houfe, as their father cannot fpare time for employments that are merely domeftick. In a work- houfe, they lofe innocence, reputation, and that fenfe of independence, which is the fureft principle of induftry. I have troubled you with thefe obfervations, becaufe I am confident they are applicable to more parifties than mine; and becaufe I am equally confident, that, were inoculatio/i generally pradtifed,. it would leflen human mifery, fave many a ufeful life, and even promote that ceconomy which many think the only obje& worthy of attention. If feven out of nineteen hundred and fifteen died of in- oculation ; and if we reckon the deaths by the cafual fmall-pox at one in five (though the malignity of the epidemick warrants a much higher eftimate), it follows, that three hundred and fe-venty-Jix lives were faved by the redtor of the parifh; who appears to be not more dif- tinguiflied by his rank, than by his knowledge and bene- ficence. See the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1788. gratuitoufly