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is transmitted from family to family by the careless
manner in which the members of infected families
mingle with those who are not infected. This
disease is constantly to be traced to schools where
children arc received from infected families, thus
spreading the disease in every direction.
SMALL POX.
Although there was but one fatal case of this
disease in the year 1862, I have not ceased in my
Reports to impress the fact that vaccination is the
only efficient means of preventing the spread of this
disease. I believe that if every child born was
efficiently vaccinated, that small pox would be
entirely annihilated. We have no instance where
small pox has been originated, tie novo, in a human
being who has been vaccinated. It was on this
account that 011 the 5tli of February, 1862, I
recommended to the Vestry a plan which is
embraced in the following extract from my Report
of that date:—"With regard to the subject of
"Vaccination I stated in my last Report, that it
"did not appear that a large number of persons
"had complied with the provisions of the
"Vaccination Extension Act. By the provisions
"of an Act passed last year, every Board of
"Guardians has power given them 'to appoint
"'some person to institute and conduct proceedings