Report of the National Vaccine Establishment, in London, for the year 1813 : dated 25 May 1814. To the Right Honourable Viscount Sidmouth, Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.

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1814
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Credit: Report of the National Vaccine Establishment, in London, for the year 1813 : dated 25 May 1814. To the Right Honourable Viscount Sidmouth, Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. 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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    OF THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT; Dated 25 May 1814. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, & c. &c. & c. National Vaccine Establishment, Leicester Square, 25th May 1814. MY LORD, THE Board of the National Vaccine Establishment has the honour to report to Your Lordship, That the public confidence in the efficacy of Vaccina- tion, continues to extend through every part of the World, and the Mortality from Small Pox to decrease in the same proportion. During the year 1813, the number of persons vaccinated at the Nine Stations appointed under the autho- rity of this Board, was 4,274; and some addition to this number may be expected in the current year, from the late establishment of three new Stations. The attention of the Board has been particularly directed to the distribution of Vaccine Lymph, and 25,394 charges of it have been furnished to the Public: it has happened not infrequently that the genuine matter has been lost in a whole district, and that the supply thus afforded has reproduced the infection, and checked the Small Pox, which has been threatening to extend its ravages. The principal Station has also served as a School for the practice of Vaccina- tion; and, since its first establishment, nearly 500 Surgeons have been instructed in the best modes of performing it, and have been enabled to introduce it in the most advantageous manner into the different parts of the British Empire, through which they have been dispersed. In London, the deaths from Small Pox have been Sg8, which is less than three-fourths of the mortality of the preceding year, though still somewhat greater than in 1811. According to official communications from the Medical Colleges of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin, and from other numerous correspondents, it appears, that the benefits of Vaccination have continued to be diffused throughout the civilized world. T rie Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, and @f Ceylon, by the 243. humane