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A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / By John Cross [i.e. John Green Crosse].

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / By John Cross [i.e. John Green Crosse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vaccinated during the latter year produced upon the mortality of the small-pox, and to fix the attention of the public to the means by which so beneficial a purpose was chiefly accom- cinated in plished, is the avowed object of the central vaccine committee of Paris in publishing the report which I have before me *. The steps taken in some instances by the local authorities, and by the heads of the clergy, have appeared to me worthy of a short notice. Many prefects of the different departments adopted only persuasive measures; but some inflicted severe privations upon those who were attacked with, or remained liable to the small-pox. In two departments, the prefects admitted none Measures di- rected by pre- into the public schools, who had not had small-pox or cow- fects of de- partments. pox; excluded from sharing the benefits of public charities or donations, all parents who refused to have their children vac- cinated ; and issued no indentures of apprenticeship for, nor gave employment in the public works and establishments to, any individuals who remained liable to small-pox. These ef- forts were further assisted by a recommendation to masters of families, shops and manufactories, not to receive any work- man, servant, or apprentice, who could not certify that he had either had the small-pox, or been vaccinated. One prefect ordered that children falling down with small- pox, Whom their parents had refused to get vaccinated, should be secluded during the whole of the disease, and in case of neglect of this order, be transferred to the nearest hospital, to be supported there, until'their recovery, at the expense of their parents. Another prefect required, that when the small-pox appeared, notice should be given of it to the mayor of the town, who was to prevent the spreading of - * Rapport du Comité Central de Vaccine sur les vaccinations pra- tiquées en France pendant l’année 1816. _ |