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.

Date:
1847
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    once made, the trouble in subsequent visitations (monthly or quarterly, as the case might be) would be limited to examin- ing the newly-entered scholars. Returns relating to such children as might possibly have entered and left a school between the periods of inspection, might be required or requested of the authorized superior; and in the case of evening or Sunday schools, suitable modifications of the time and method of inspection could readily be devised. Printed notices of intended visits, forms and books for the statistical returns, ceitificates of vaccination and orders to be vaccinated, would include nearly all the required materials to be employed. Both trouble and expense would be amply repaid. Such being the grounds on which the two proposals may be shown to be just, practicable, opportune, and economical, it may be well to develop briefly the results to be anticipated from their joint operation. For the attainment of any full and lasting benefit, both pro- positions must be carried out. Vaccination being required or suggested by the one, its actual performance is continually ensured by the other. The powers granted in the second can alone maintain the strict fulfilment of the first. It has been estimated that one-fourth of the population of this country are between the ages of 3 and 15,— extremes which may be said to embrace the school-educational career. There are upwards of four millions of such children in England and Wales; but of these, owing to illness, occupation, want of means, or other causes, all are not at school at one time. Too many never reach a school at all; but it is sincerely to be hoped, when such strenuous efforts are being made in the cause of education, and when schools are open even for the poor, the friendless, and the ragged, that the time is approach- ing ra])idly when all who are not educated privately, will at some time or another be found at school. Schools may be regarded, indeed, as social toll-gates, through which, along the highway of life, almost the whole of the youthful population must defile. Here, it is proposed that the