The Gloucestershire commemoration of the Jenner centenary, 1896 / The Jenner Society.

  • Edward Jenner Society.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The Gloucestershire commemoration of the Jenner centenary, 1896 / The Jenner Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    only to tli(‘ causes of tlie e))i(leinic, but to the need of vaccination as tln^ “uly means for its arrest. Tim Report ol the Vaccination Committee of the Cloncoster Hoard of (luardians bears witness to the value of this work. As a result of the publicity wliich the Sociot}’ has thus accjuired, it has rcceiv(Ml applications ii’om all ]>arts of th<‘ Hritish Isles for its publications, and esjx'cially lor inlonna- tion as to the teachin<'s of th(^ CloucestiM- epidmnic. d'hf Committee reco^mise in such applications an appreciation of tlu*. imj)ortan(!(! of tlu* work which the Society is carr_\in^j' on, and have gladly done their best to cojnply with them. This work has been hitherto done abnost entirely by uni)aid labour, the resources entrusted to the Committee by the contributions of a comi)aratively small number of residents in the County having been ein])loyed in ju-inting, advertising, i)ostage, (listribution, and other necessary or incidental ex])enses. Hut if the woi'k of the Society is to be carried on continuously, and especially if it is to exteml over ii wider urea thiiii the County of Gloucester, incitMsed exi)enditure will have to bo incurred in providing clerical assistance, otlice accommodation, and for other purposes, to meet which the Committee must look for larger supi>ort, and especially from those living outside the County, who value the discovery of .lENNEli, and desire to honour his name.* Should the Committee receive siich a general exiiression of aiiproval and support as may justify them in doing so they will take steps to give to the Society the form and organisation which such an eidarged scope would de- mand, in the belief that in no better way can tho Jeinie)' Gentrnary be commemorated in this country, than l)> the establishment of a permanent institution for educating the imblic in the truth about vaccination, in order that tlie dangerons spread of ignorant prejudice against the elbeaej of .Tenner’s discovery may everywhere be refuted and lieKi in check. Communications may be addressed to the Honorary Secretarv, as under. Dr HONI), .Tenner Society, Gloucester. * It i.s .a striking illustration of the difTcrence of Jennor is treated in his own eountry and was year of Grace, one hundred years after his meiuoral.lc menced. there is no tangible memorial of him but a coup e