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Number of cases of successful vaccination:
From Sept. 29th, 1854, to Sept. 29th, 1855 2812
From Sept. 29th, 1855, to 1856 3094
5906
For the purpose of comparison, we may use the
total vaccinations of the two years, 5906. Now during
the two years the total births were 9350.
It is true that the registered vaccinations do not
represent the actual vaccinations, or the non-successful
vaccinations; and that allowance must be made for 1000
infants who died under 3 months old, that is within the
time specified for vaccination by the Act. But if 1000
be added to 5902, there still remains a considerable
number of children unaccounted for, many of whom
there is reason to believe are unprotected. If only onetenth
of the population neglect this prophylactic remedy
sufficient material will always remain for the spreading
of this most loathsome and destructive disease.
Whilst Vaccination is the acknowledged great preservative
against this disease, which in former times
destroyed more lives and left more victims with shattered
health, than any epidemic with which we are now
acquainted, we hold another check against its ravages
in those sanitary measures which the Act under which
you are constituted empowers you to carry out.
The deaths from Measles were very nearly the same
in the two years.