Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black.

  • Black, William, 1749-1829.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tants, not to truft to that precarious and ruinous mode of proteftion. Subfcribers of one guinea to be annual Governors, of ten guineas Governors for life; each, to recommend, in the courfe of oue year, four patients, or three families at one time, to be inoculated: experience will beft determine the numbers proper for each to recommend. All the rules refpefting Treafurer, Governors, Seledl Committees, and Eleftions, and all other R-egulations proper for conducting this InRitution, may readily be copied from the other Dif:- penfaries already erefted. Tt will be proper, that a fmall concife pamphlet be pub-^ lifhed by the Medical Gentlemen, who afTociate for the above hum.ane purpofe, to be printed at the expence of the public funds, to Ihew the inhabitants the neceffity and im_portance of general and early Inoculation, and the ineiEcacy of Ino- culating Hofpitals : one of thefe pamphlets to be given to each Subfcriber, others to be diftributed to the poor, others to be fold at the low price of iix-pence, or at the utmiofl:, one iliilling each; and it would be advifeable to fend a copy to coifee-houfes, and to each of the different clergymen in LonT^ don, who, in a variety of ways, have it in their power to inftruft and to enlighten the public in this effential fubjeft, and to increafe the Dilpenfary funds. Such a cheap publi- cation will be neceiTary on other accounts, to filence envious or interelled opponents to the practice of general Inoculation, and to remove the prejudices of the ignorant and uninformed. At the end of the pamphlet, the Scheme and Rules of the Difpenfary, the names of the Physicians, Apothe!;aries, Go- vernors, and Subfcribers, to be annexed. It is, perhaps, fu- perfiuous to obferve, that every other great City in Europe, jin proportion to the fizc of each', may adopt a fimijar plan for Qeneral Inoculation. F I N I