A plea for the children : with an exact reproduction of two pages of an old register kept in the parish chapel at Pudsey in Yorkshire, in 1787 and 1792, shewing (1) the prevalence of small-pox in the last century, and (2) the special ravages it made amongst children.

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A plea for the children : with an exact reproduction of two pages of an old register kept in the parish chapel at Pudsey in Yorkshire, in 1787 and 1792, shewing (1) the prevalence of small-pox in the last century, and (2) the special ravages it made amongst children. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also includes statistics from the epidemics in Gloucester and Middlesbrough in 1896 and 1898 respectively.

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Gloucester : Jenner Society, [not before 1898]

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11 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm

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The Jenner Society "was founded in the year in which fell the centenary of his [i.e. Jenner's] great discovery." (British Medical Journal, July 24, 1897, p. 227)

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