A letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval ... on the expediency and propriety of regulating by Parliamentary authority the practice of variolous inoculation, with a view to the extermination of the small-pox.

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1807
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Credit: A letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval ... on the expediency and propriety of regulating by Parliamentary authority the practice of variolous inoculation, with a view to the extermination of the small-pox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    men as shall be appointed, as aforesaid, to see them kept in ; that then it shall be lawful for such watchmen with violence to enforce f them to keep their houses : *and if any hurt come by such enforcement to such disobedient persons, that then the said keepers, watch¬ men, and any other their assistants, shall not be impeached therefore : (2) and if any infected person, as aforesaid, so commanded to keep house, shall, contrary to such com¬ mandment, wiifLiliy and contemptuously go abroad, and shall converse in company, hav¬ ing any infectious sore upon him uncured, that then such person and persons shall be taken, deemed and adjudged as a felon, and to suiter pains of death as in case of felony t (3) but if such person shall not have any such sore found about him, then for his said offence to be punished as a vagabond in all respects should or ought to be, by the statute made in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of our late sovereign lady Queen Eli¬ zabeth, for the punishment of rogues and
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