On a review of what has been advanced it will appear, that the practice of Inoculation has been upon the whole rather hurtful than advantageous to the city of London, and that the mortality from Small Pox has lately increased to an alarming degree: that it may be presumed this loss has not been sustained by the wealthy, who have availed themselves of their easy circumstances, and by timely Inoculation have secured their families; but that the loss has fallen principally among those who are not the least useful members of the community, viz. on young persons, the offspring of inferior trades-people, and the labouring poor.

It has been shewn, that to encourage partial Inoculations among such of the poor as might be willing to accept the offer, and should be found in a proper state of health, would be to increase the evil, by spreading the disease in a destructive manner among their neighbours, and be on other accounts dangerous and intolerable. An hospital for the purpose of Inoculation only has been rescued from the unjust charge of being unhealthy, and has been proved to enjoy superior advantages in that respect, and many others; and that a well-regulated plan of this kind would effectually answer the purposes of abating the mortality, and securing the community from being infected by the patients.

An application therefore to the Legislature for approbation and assistance seems highly expedient; and it is not to be doubted but the generous and humane would readily be induced to raise by subscription a fund sufficient to carry these good designs into execution; so that as we are the first European nation who received and encouraged Inoculation, we may also have the honour of being the first who have generously diffused the benefit of it to the community at large, and transmitted it to posterity.

We have thus far only taken into consideration what respects the two extremes of society, the opulent and indigent; but there still remains a numerous and respectable part of the community unnoticed, I mean, persons who are in but moderate circumstances, yet above accepting the charity of an hospital.

Persons thus circumstanced seem to have a claim upon the humanity of such practitioners as are eminent in their profession; who, from that motive, we doubt not, will chearfully give their attendance on such terms as families can afford. By this well-timed generosity, the minds of the middle rank of people will be made easy, and it will be a great inducement for them also to inoculate their families.

To conclude, I have used my best endeavours to represent the whole that has been treated of in its true light, and recommended the methods that have seemed to me to answer the purposes most effectually. It may probably happen, that zeal in the cause may have carried me too far, or that through inadvertency some errors may have been made. If they are pointed out, I will acknowledge them with thanks to the informer, having nothing more in view than the good of the public, and that the practice recommended may be so conducted as to afford its opposers as few objections, on any solid ground, as possible.

It is so truly the cause of humanity, and so certain of answering the purpose, that I most earnestly recommend a liberal support to all charitably disposed persons, and more especially to such in affluent circumstances, who may have experienced the happy effects of Inoculation in their own families, concluding with the words constantly used by a beggar in Turky,