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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    No. XI. REPORT of the SMAl^L-POX SOCI- ETY at CHESTER, General Meeting Sept. 17, 1782, This inftitution having exifted four years in March laft, and there having been two general inoculations, we (hall review the principal fa&s that have occurred to our ob- servation* Last fpring, 128 poor children were ino- culated by the members of the Small-pox fociety, thefe, added to the 85 inoculated in the fpring of 1780, make the whole num- ber 213 ; during the laft four years, 203 pri- vate patients have been inoculated: in all four hundred and fixteen. Two infants have died after inoculation, tho' there are doubts, in both cafes, whether in confequence of that operation : there was reafon to fufpect th*t one of the patients had previoully received the natural infection, and the death of the other might not improbably be attributed to a diforder of the bowels. Hence its degree of mortality in Chefter, fince the fociety was eftabliihed,