Vaccination considered in relation to the public health : with inquiries and suggestions thereon. A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Morpeth, first commissioner of Her Majesty's woods & forests / by John Marshall.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Vaccination considered in relation to the public health : with inquiries and suggestions thereon. A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Morpeth, first commissioner of Her Majesty's woods & forests / by John Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    APPENDIX. The Inspection. The leading facts to be ascertained in an inspection are the following:— 1. The sex and age of the individual. •2. The fact of having been vaccinated or not. 3. The fact of having had small-pox or not, distinguishing between casual and inoculated cases. 4. The date of either or both events, as the case may be. This would, of coui'se, be specially required in regard to the attack of small-pox. 5. The occurrence of a second attack of small-pox; and whether this was after vaccination, inoculation, or natural small-pox; also the date of these events. 6. The fact of re-vaccination, and the date. Of course remarks on special cases might be made, as to dis- figurement, blindness, &c. The social condition and district residence of individuals would also be recorded. Proposals concerning the Census. There is one other suggestion which may be here adverted to. The census of England and Wales will be taken again in a few years. The last, in 1841, cost the country 57,1 lOZ., independently of the subsequent expenses of analyzing the returns. Would it be possible, in this portion of the United Kingdom at least, to obtain in the census papers for 1851 returns under the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of the above-mentioned heads .'' The other points would render the subject complicated. The information, including, as it would, the condition of the ADULT population, would be of extreme value, as illustrating the operation of small-pox and vaccination upon them; it would throw light on the interesting question of RE-vaccination, and it does not seem impossible to collect it.