Vaccination considered in relation to the public health : with inquiries and suggestions thereon. A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Morpeth, First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods & Forests. / By John Marshall.

John Marshall

Date:: MDCCCXLVII

Credit: Vaccination considered in relation to the public health : with inquiries and suggestions thereon. A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Morpeth, First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods & Forests. / By John Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$hut that it is accompanied by advantages which we, in the country of Jenner, do not yet possess, may be learned from the condition of France and Austria, as already quoted. To be able to compare with either kingdom, our annual deaths from this cause must be reduced at least one-half! In her Majesty’s dragoon guards and dragoon regiments,—- which, be it remembered, are, with the rest of the army, under the influence of both a rule and an inspection as to the practice of vaccination, —the deaths from small-pox, during a period of 1\ years, in an average annual strength of 6165 men, were only three;—a proportion which would represent an annual mor¬ tality of 1 in 14,900 adult persons ! Such are the benefits of vaccination rigidly and systematically employed. Surely what might be, ought to be attempted to extend them to the entire community. Earnestly hoping that the facts and proposals detailed in the preceding pages will be deemed of sufficient importance to command your Lordship’s attention, I have the honour to be, Your Lordship’s obedient, humble servant, JOHN MARSHALL. Crescent Place, Mounington Crescent, May, 1847. /$