| Description Of Item | Covering letter for the report of his Small Pox Society and a draft of his Sketch of a Plan to Exterminate the Small Pox from Britain. The draft is of a work with this title that Haygarth published in 1793. Statistics in the paper go up to 1777. It lists fifteen measures that should be adopted to eradicate small-pox followed by observations on the success of the Small-Pox Society in Chester, particularly the use of financial rewards for the observance of regulations. Further evidence is given by quoting in full a letter from B Waterhouse to Haygarth in which he details the method by which small-pox was eradicated from Rhode Island. The paper ends with statistics on the number of deaths from small-pox in London, England, Manchester, England, Liverpool, England, and Chester, England, including calculations on population growth by Haygarth's 'mathematical friend' John Dawson. It ends with queries about the practicalities of the regulations. Haygarth first mentions the idea of the paper in his letter at CUL/1/2/1011. |