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rights. This feeling, which is so fatal to
all combined action for the civilisation and
welfare of mankind, which demand that
individual natural rights should be given
up for the public good, not only exists
amongst the lowest classes of our population,
but amongst the wealthy, is one of
the great barriers to the carrying out of
vaccination and other sanitary measures.
In February 1862, I recommended the adoption
of a plan for securing the vaccination of the children
of the Parish, by supplying the Sanitary Inspector
with a list of all the children born, so that he might
by personal visits and inspection ascertain if the
provisions of the Vaccination Extension Act had
been acted on. He commenced these new duties
on the 6th of November, 1862, and in his report in
the Appendix, you will see the result of his labours.
From that report you will see that he discovered
seventeen children unvaccinated. I would make
one or two remarks on these returns. In the first
place twenty-six persons had given wrong addresses
to the Registrar, 122 children had not been
supplied with certificates of vaccination although
this is required by law, 27 families had removed
from the Parish and had left their addresses, 46
families had removed and could not be found. In
two instances only the parents refused to satisfy the
inquiries of the Inspector. From this you will see