"She is quite safe--as safe as the others.

I wrote to Dr.Jenner himself.

But don't mention that I spoke about this." "Why not ?" "Because to-day I heard that they have had the small-pox at Kingswell." I felt a cold shudder.

Though inoculation and vaccination had made it less fatal among the upper classes, this frightful scourge still decimated the poor, especially children.

Great was the obstinacy in refusing relief; and loud the outcry in Norton Bury, when Mr.Halifax, who had met and known Dr.Jenner in London--finding no practitioner that would do it, persisted in administering the vaccine virus himself to his children.