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England, in the manner already provided for Scotland and
Ireland.
And your memorialists will ever pray.
Signed on behalf of the
Chairman.
Clerk to the
SMALL POX.
The past year witnessed once more the freedom
of the Parish from that most preventible of all
diseases, small-pox. That this disease in the year
18G3 alone should have carried off in London above
2000 persons and have afflicted upwards of 12,000
more, is a fact that makes one stand aghast at the
reckless indifference to human life that characterises
our imperial and local governments. The remedy
for preventing small-pox is Vaccination. To see
that the whole population is vaccinated before it is
six months old, is one of the easiest possible
accomplishments to a government in earnest on the
subject. It is done in many countries of Europe,
and the consequence is small-pox is unknown
amongst them. The real money cost of this amount
of death and disease could not have been less than
£.100,000. A tenth part of this sum spent in
proper measures would have prevented the disease
altogether.
At my request the Sanitary Inspector was
appointed by the Poor Board under my superinten-