An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox : and proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth.
- John Haygarth
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox : and proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![eftablilhed, if both the deaths above-men- tion were occafioned by inoculation, has been only one in 208. The dreadful fatality of the natural Small pox is fo well known, that it feems impoflible to account for the reluc- i tance wiiich the common people ftill have to partake the benefit of this falutary art. We will next ftate the difficulty and the i fuccefs of our endeavours to prevent the pro- \] grefs of the natural Small-pox. The fame | people who refufed inoculation, and they are tj a large proportion of the inhabitants, are :i fearlefs or rather defirous that their children 1 fhould be infedfed with the natural frnall- j pox. It is with concern v^e remark, that in : one part of the town (Crofs-gun entry, Fo- ; refi-ftreet) the Inhabitants, difregarding the 1 infpedor’s exhortations, have purpofely pro- pagated the diftemper, carrying the poifon, and even the patients, from one hoiife to another, without referve. In confequence of this condiuS:, it fpread thro’ 15 families, in-| fedting all in this entry liable to it, and| proved fatal to feveral. In another quarter, | The poor people allowed their children to| have an unrelerved intercourfe with the in- fecVious.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2230986x_0214.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
