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full acceptance of vaccination, it is satisfactory to know that theLocal
Government Board have made arrangements for affording to
parents the option of having their children vaccinated with calflymph
at the public vaccination stations. The Government,
moreover, supplies medical practitioners with "stock" lymph
from the calf to enable them to start a series of vaccinations.
The use of calf-lymph is common on the continent, and the
system of animal vaccination has been carried to great perfection
at Brussels under the direction of M. Warlomont, who forwards
regular supplies of lymph to this country, his tubes and charged
ivory points being procurable at a moderate price. Stations, moreover,
public and private, have been established in London at
which persons can be vaccinated direct from the calf. This direct
vaccination is highly successful at the Government Stations, an
average of 988 vesicles resulting from 1,000 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
he attended with perfectly successful results, in the Army Medical
Department, in only 40 per cent. of cases ; in 34 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, ex*
cepting by 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, allusion
may be made to the " Special Report on Sanitary, Nuisances
Hemoval, and other cognate Acts," by the Law and Parliamentary
Committee, resulting from an enquiry, on reference by your