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RECEIPTS during the nine months ending 30th June, 1854.—Continued.
OTAGO.
Current.
Totals.
£. s. d. £. s. d.
Customs 2715 11 5
Fees, Resident Magistrate's Court 2 15 6
Fines, ditto ditto 2 5 0
Fees on Registration of Births, &c. 4 11 0
Pilot Dues 3 7 3
Incidents 4 4 0
Land Sales (inside Otago Block) 710 8 4
Ditto (outside ditto) 139 14 6
Assessment on Cattle 83 5 8
Depasturing Licenses 342 7 3
Timber Licenses 15 0 0
Fees on Crown Grants 5 10 0
8051 19 1
RECAPITULATION.
RECEIPTS.—REVENUE AND INCIDENTAL.
£ s. d.
Auckland 68,735 1 5
New Plymouth 6,998 3 4
Wellington 45,661 12 11
Nelson 20,615 5 8
Canterbury 8,832 13 9
Otago 8,051 19 11
158,894 17 0
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
28th November, 1854
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government, directs the publication
for general information of the following
Report of the Committee of the House of
Representatives on Vaccination.
By His Excellency's command,
'ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON VACCI-
NATION.
Your Committee appointed the 21st June,
1854, to consider "the best means of intro-
ducing the most complete system of Vacci-
nation amongst the Natives," having taken
evidence thereon and maturely considered the
same, have agreed to the following report.
They think that no time ought to be lost in
protecting the Aborigines of the Colony as
widely and extensively as possible, from the
dangers of small pox by means of vaccination.
With regard to the efficacy of vaccination
as a protective agent, your Committee do not
deem it necessary to adduce evidence. They
will merely state what is admitted by the best
Medical Authorities to be a fact; that amongst
Europeans before the practice of inoculation,
the deaths from the disease were in the ratio
of one-half of those attacked. After the
practice of inoculation had been introduced,
the proportion of deaths was not more than
one in five hundred, and since vaccination has
become general in Europe the disease of small
pox, one of the most loathsome and fatal
scourges of the human species has been robbed
of nearly all its terrors.
All concurrent testimony goes to prove,
that in the colored races of men, small pox is
more virulent and fatal than in the fair
skinned races, while among savages, the'r
personal habits, mode of life, and ignorance of
proper treatment combine to disseminate the
disease with frightful rapidity, and to give lo
it a most malignant and exterminating cha-
racter.
The disappearance of the Aboriginal in-
habitants of the North American continent,
is mainly to be ascribed to the ravages of
small pox. It is on record (vide Catlin's
North American Indians,) that out of a tribe
of 2,000 attacked by small pox, in the year
1837, in a few months only 35 survived.
Your Committee cannot doubt, that results
somewhat similar would follow upon its in-
troduction into these islands; and that a most
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Continuation of Receipts Statement for nine months ending 30th June, 1854
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💰 Finance & Revenue28 November 1854
Receipts, Otago, Provincial Accounts, Financial Summary, Customs, Land Sales
🏛️ Publication of House of Representatives Report on Vaccination for Natives
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration28 November 1854
Vaccination, Report, House of Representatives, Aborigines, Smallpox, Public Health
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary