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average of 988 vesicles resulting from 1000 insertions of calflymph.
"This rate of success," Dr. Buchanan observes, "is
nowise to be had when the lymph" (human or animal) "is
used in any preserved condition." Preserved lymph, indeed,
is said to be attended with perfectly successful results in the
Army Medical Department in only 40 per cent. of cases: in 84
per cent. failure is complete, while in 26 per cent. "modified
vaccine pustules" (probably a very imperfect protection) are
obtained. The "keeping" qualities of calf-lymph are at present
matter of observation by the Directors of the Animal Vaccine
Station. In face of the above statement, however, it is obvious
that the protective power of vaccination cannot be fully and
universally obtained, excepting from the use of lymph taken
direct from a vesicle, whether human or animal.
SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR.
Before entering upon customary details of the work of the
Inspectors, under the Nuisances Removal and other Acts,
reference may be made to the "Special Report on Sanitary,
Nuisances Removal and other Cognate Acts," by the Law and
Parliamentary Committee, to whom it was delegated to enquire
" Whether the provisions of the various Acts have been and are
being enforced by the Vestry as fully as the circumstances of the
Parish demand, and if not to advise as to the steps it is desirable
to take for their better enforcement; and also whether any
amendment of the law may appear necessary"? The first step
taken by the Committee was to obtain reports from the Surveyor
and the Medical Officer of Health, "with respect to any special
matters which in their judgment have not hitherto received, but
which should receive, the attention of the Vestry." The reports
of the said officers, in the result, formed the basis of the
Committee's enquiry and report, and with that report, which was
unanimously adopted by your Vestry, were published and widely
circulated. It will suffice here, therefore, to say, for my own part
in the matter, that attention was frankly called to all of the points