An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox. And proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth.

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.
Date:
1784
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Credit: An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox. And proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bours liable to the final 1-pox, and yet net one of them caught the infection. No. VIL T° Member of the SMALL-POX SOCIETY. The Small-pox Society has been eftab- lifhed near two years. During this time, the diftemper has been frequently brought into Chefter from the neighbouring towns and villages, appearing in different parts of the city, lb that no perfon, liable to be infected, could have walked with fafety on our walls or in our rows. The regulations of the So- ciety have prevented the danger of catching the Small-pox, not only in thefe places of public refort, but have, in numerous inftan- Ces, ftopt its progrefs among the pooreft clafs of our inhabitants, who were furrounded, even at the next door, by children liable to the diftemper. The money expended in re- wards, befides the purpofe of checking the fatal ravages of the natural Small-pox, has alfo afforded a moft feafonable relief to many *3x? raffed families, whofe poverty and wretch- ed nefs