Report ... on the supposed failures of vaccination at Cambridge. August 1808 / [By J. Ring and W. Blair].

  • Royal Jennerian Society
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[1808]
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Credit: Report ... on the supposed failures of vaccination at Cambridge. August 1808 / [By J. Ring and W. Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A-4- ^ 7 S j p ROYAL JENNERIAN SOCIETY, UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THEIR MAJESTIES AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. Salisbury Square, August 3Q, 3 80S, The Royal Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small Pox having re¬ ceived information, that considerable alarm had been excited by reports of supposed failures in Vaccination at Cambridge, requested the favour of Mr. Ring and Mr. Blair to proceed thither immediately, for the purpose of investigating those reports. In this request of the Society the above Gentlemen readily acquiesced ; and they have since laid before the Board of Directors a particular statement, of which the following is a general Abstract. General Result of an Inquiry into the unfavourable Reports concerning Vaccination at Cambridge, by the Deputation of the Royal Jennerian Society, August 5/A, i8c8. The Small Pox has been very prevalent and very fatal at Cambridge, for ten weeks past; during which period a considerable number of children, vaccinated at different times, have been much exposed to the infection of that disorder, which they have perfectly resisted. uosnel). Printer, Little OueenStieet.