Report of the National Vaccine Establishment, in London, for the year 1816 : dated 15th May 1817. To the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Sidmouth, Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.

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1817
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Credit: Report of the National Vaccine Establishment, in London, for the year 1816 : dated 15th May 1817. To the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Sidmouth, Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT, FOR THE YEAR 1816; • • Dated \^th May 1817. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT SIDMOyTTI, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, &c. &c. &e. My Lord, NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT, Leicester Square, 15th May 1817. 'I liave the honour to report to Your Lordship, that in the course of the last ▼ V year, a considerable Augmentation has occurred in the number of persons Vaccinated within the Bills of Mortality, by the Surgeons of this Establishment; the amount at the ordinary and extraordinary Stations having been 7,771; and 44>37h charges of Vaccine Lymph have been distributed from these Stations. We have also to report from the Statements of our extraordinary and corresponding Vaccinators, that 47,874 persons have been Vaccinated in various parts of the Kingdom, 31,689 of whom are distinctly stated to have undergone Vaccination from January to December 1816; of the remaining 16,185, a large proportion were Vaccinated during the year, but not all of them, as a few of our corresponding Vaccinators, in distant parts of the country, have made their reports to us for a succession of years collectively. The Board has made a considerable addition to the number of extraordinary and corresponding Vaccinators in different parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and in the West Indies, by which means the Benefits of Vaccination are extended under its immediate direction. A Diploma has been formed, by order of the Board, which we have conferred on all those gentlemen employed by us in Vaccination. The great importance of affording to Practitioners, at a distance from the Metro- ))olis, the opportunity of an immediate and constant supply of Lymph, is strikingly afiparent, from their inability to keep up such a regular succession of Patients as would at all times furnish them with it; and it is this Board principally which can supply the renewed demand. In the case also of Small Pox breaking out in any particular district, it is of the utmost consequence that no time should be lost in procuring Vaccine Lymph, in order to stop the destructive ravages of that disease: to forward so desirable an object, the utmost facility is afforded by this Board. As a proof of the progress of Vaccination in this Country, the Board has to notice the establishment of a Royal Vaccine Institution in the counties of Bucks, Berks, 35S. -t- A and