A treatise on the public health, climate, hygeine [sic], and prevailing diseases, of Bengal and the North-West Provinces / By Kenneth Mackinnon.
- MacKinnon, Kenneth
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the public health, climate, hygeine [sic], and prevailing diseases, of Bengal and the North-West Provinces / By Kenneth Mackinnon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ting' in of the hot, season—Dr. Stewart’s report—rnfortunnte jtosition of tlie natives of India witli respect to variola and its propliylac.tic—Causes whieli affect tlie success of vaccination— Limited means; liahility of tlie virus to degenerate ; and pre- judice of the people—Present system utterly defective—.An ex- tended one not encouraged hy the succe.“s of the present one— lincertainty in |)roducing the disease—Suggestion only to vac- cinate at the favorable sea.son—And to jirocure the di.sease off Hill people—Dr. Stewart's suggestion to spread vaccination by tbe dispensaries bighly a|)proved of—Author’s opinion that the ]irejudices of the peojde may be overcome—Success of dispen- saries adduced as proof of this—.Means likely to improve the present system—Hut even if successful, the bulk of tbe peojde still unjirotected—Justifying tbe suggestion to substitute a sys- tem of innoculation—Kffects of the jiresent jiractice of innocn- lation—Tbe question of sujipressing it, or of introducing com- pulsory innoculation—Proofs of tbe inefficiency of the jiresent vaccine institutions—Extract of a letter from Medical Hoard to Governor (ieneral—Of one from Dr. Stewart to .Medical Hoard—Summary of jiresent state of the question—.And au- thor’s ojiinion of what ought to be done—Tbe great advantage jiointed out of ajijiointing Sub-.Assistant Surgeons to the inte- rior of districts—.Means of imjiroving the jiresent system at Ci- vil stations—(treat difficulty in regard to the uncertainty of the virus—Erujitive diseases among horned cattle, llSto l^ti MEASliES. Mild character of in this climate—Hronchitic, ejiidemic, among children noticed by the late Dr. John .Adam, 12Gto 128 HOOPING COUGH. Hooping Cough, 128 NOTE TO CHAPTER II. Note first, second and third to Chajiter II., 130 to 136](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2870874x_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
