[Circular letter soliciting contributions. Begins] The important objects of this ... charity.

  • Royal Jennerian Society
Date:
[1828]
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    Itiopal Jjiennenan £>octetp. ESTABLISHED FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF THE SMALLPOX, AND FOR SUPPLYING the public, the army and navy, with vaccine virus, free of expense, and ALSO FOR THE VACCINATION OF THE POOR (GRATIS) THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM. Patron. HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY GEORGE IV. Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with their Dependencies, and of the Kingdom of Hanover, &c. &c. Wire-Patrons* II. It. If. the Duke of Clarence, H. R. II. the Duke of Gloucester, H. R. H. the Duke of Cumberland, II. R. II. the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, H. R. H. the Prince of Hesse Homberg, H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge, H. R. H. the Prince of Denmark. H. R. H. the Duchess of Clarence, H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent, H. R. H. the Duchess of Cumberland, H. R. H. the Duchess of Cambridge, W i a tro nested H. R. H. the Princess Sophia Augusta, II. R. II. the Princess Sophia, H. R. H. the Duchess of Gloucester, H. R. II. the Princess of Hesse Homberg. 33oarii Managers Messrs. John Simpson Knight Spencer * Joseph Steel *Edward Sutleffe James Swan William Swan Thos. Stackhouse *John Taunton *Samuel Uppom *T. Walshman, MD. George Welch N.B. The Names marked thus * are of the Medical Profession, and form the Committee of Medical Assistants. Messrs. Messrs. Messrs. Henry Bain *Wm. 0. Cribb Charles Higly William Bennett *R. P. Darancet, MD. James Hutchinson E. M. Boileau William Darton Jos. S. Hutchinson Frederick Boileau Rev. R. Dickinson *John Hingeston *Edward Bryant R. W. Dickinson ^Charles Johnson *Burton Browne John Fox John Lister Philip Browne John Frost J. J. Merlen Richard Clarance Joseph Frost William Oman Michael Constable *Thomas Hardy James Powell James Constable *Wm. Headington *G. Rees, MD. *W. D. Cordell, M. Sec. *J. W. Hill Richard Roscoe The important objects of this excellent and universal Charity are to stop the ravages of that scourge of the human race, that desolator of mankind, the Smallpox, which at this time not only rages in many districts of the Country, but has broken out in various parts of this vast Metropolis, destroying many of its victims, from the backwardness of Parents in adopting the preventive, and thus scattering the seeds of contagion and death throughout the Kingdom. [Please turn over.]