Report on small-pox in Calcutta, 1833-34 -- 1837-38 -- 1843-44, and vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 / by Duncan Stewart.
- Stewart, Duncan, 1804-1875
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on small-pox in Calcutta, 1833-34 -- 1837-38 -- 1843-44, and vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 / by Duncan Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 200 ] from the original supply. I consider it peculiarly fortunate that you have been enabled to procure a stock of recent vaccine lymph so near the time most favorable to its successful trial, the approaching cool weather; You will much oblige me by affording the means of vaccination to the Medical Officers of the following Corps—H. M. 9th Lancers, 3d Foot, the 9th, 13th, 50th and 62d Regiments. (Signed) J. F. CLARKE, M. D. The Third Part of the present volume has been also enlarged to admit of the publication of the valu- able Special Reports on Vaccination called for in 1841, and a number of other original documents which (subsequently to the first presentation of this Report) were obligingly placed at my disposal by the Medical Board. An excellent account of the Vaccine Establishments at Bombay has been reprint- ed from the Lancet of 1834; and this, together with the correspondence from the Madras Government in 1841 regarding Vaccination in that Presidency will, it is hoped, add greatly to the utility as it must to the general interest of the volume. Mr. Shoolbred's able Report on Vaccination in Bengal 1804, and Dr. Cameron's in 1827, being now extremely scarce, have been epitomised and noticed fully, partly to evince the accuracy and to vindicate the originality of many of the early observations then made and recorded, and partly while doing so, to render henceforth unnecessary the ever recurring enumeration by Medical Officers of the well known and acknowledged obstacles and difficulties in the way of Vaccination in Bengal, and to encourage](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21355150_0280.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
