ROYAL JENNERIAN SOCIETY
FOR THE
EXTERMINATION OF THE SMALL-POX.
At the Annual General Court, held at the Central House, No. 14, Salisbury Square,
On Wednesday the 7th Day of March 1804,
His Grace the Duke of BEDFORD, President, in the Chair,
THE FOLLOWING REPORT WAS BROUGHT UP.
TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL COURT.
The Report of the Board of Directors and Medical Council of the Royal
Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-Pox.
A twelvemonth has now elapsed since the first institution of this Society, and the consequent appointment of your Board of Directors and Medical Council; and, upon a retrospective view of what has been accomplished during that period, we may presume to congratulate the Society and the Public upon the progress which has been actually made.
A Central House and Thirteen Stations, conveniently dispersed over this large metropolis, have been put into action. The number inoculated under the auspices of this Society during that twelvemonth, for a considerable period of which no extent of inoculation was practicable, amounts to 5987; and from the Central House alone 6134 charges of matter, to 2214 different persons, have been supplied and distributed to almost every part of the empire and of the world.
In effecting these objects, in purchasing the lease of and fitting up a commodious house, in surmounting various obstacles, and in almost every form, we have unavoidably incurred a considerable expense; but we trust a foundation has now been laid, which affords a reasonable hope of gradually accomplishing the great object for which we associated, the progressive Extermination of the Small-pox; and we may confidently state that the future average of annual expenditure will not from every source exceed One Thousand Pounds.
Thus far our statement may be deemed flattering; but we are reluctantly called upon to contemplate the reverse of the picture, and to confess our disappointment that the liberality of the Public has not kept pace with the exertions and exigences of the Society. The whole amount of Subscriptions and Donations received is
