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APPENDIX VII.
SMALL POX AND VACCINATION.
LOOK TO YOUR CHILDREN.
December, 1859.
There is a great deal of Smallpox about St. Giles's at present, and people are
dying from it every week. This comes of their not being thoroughly Vaccinated.
Only half the population is rightly protected in this way. If every body were properly
vaccinated, there would be very little smallpox or none at all, and if people
did catch it, they would be almost sure to get well, without any scars on their
faces.
A person who has not been vaccinated, or if he have no mark of vaccination on
his arm, is extremely likely now-a-days to catch smallpox and to have it badly. You
cannot tell how soon such a person may be attacked.
A person with one or two marks on his arm is not so safe from smallpox as if
he had three or four; and if the marks are faint and difficult to find, such a person
also is very likely to get the complaint at the present time.
Look to your own Arms and your Children's Arms, and remember that it is
in your own power, and that it is your own duty, to preserve yourselves and them
from the terrible disease of smallpox. You are earnestly recommended to have all
your children Vaccinated again, unless they have three or four vaccination marks,
plain and easy to sea. Do not trust to one or two marks, nor to any number of
faint ones ; let your children be vaccinated again. It will only cause a little redness
and itching of the arm, and will make them safe against a very fearful disease which
might carry them to their graves.
Vaccination is performed without charge, by Mr. Bennett, Public Vaccinator,
at No. 7, Vinegar-yard, Broad-street, St. Giles's, daily, between the hours of 10
and 11 in the morning.
Or, if preferred, persons may be vaccinated, also without charge, and without
any letter of recommendation, at the Bloomsbury Dispensary, 62, Great Russtreet,
at one o'clock every Wednesday aud Friday.
This warning is issued by Dr. Buchanan, Medical Officer of Health, who will
receive information as to the outbreak of smallpox or other contagious (catching)
disease. He will always be ready to point out the best means of preventing the
spread of these diseases. Apply to him at the Office of the Board of Works, 199*
Holborn, any morning at nine o'clock.
APPENDIX VIII.
The Humble Petition of the Board of Works for the St. Giles
District in the County of Middlesex.
Humbly Sheweth,
That the present system of Rgistering Births in England is imperfect, inasmuch
as the law does not require information of every birth to be given to the
Registrar.
That in consequence of this imperfection, a large proportion of births are not registered,
and that many fallacies and inconveniences hence arise.
That the operation of the Vaccination Laws cannot be ascertaiued without a complete
system of registering births.
That in Scotland the registration of births is at present compulsory by the Act 17
and 18 Vic., cap. 80, and that no objections are known to exist in that country to
the operation of this law.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Hon. House to pass a measure for
the complete and efficient Registration of Births in England,
And your petitioners will ever pray.
(The above petition was presented to the Houses of Lords and Commons.)