Kingdom, such sums of money as may at any time
be required to be paid to fulfil the guarantee under
this Act in respect either of principal or interest.
Certificate of Amount paid out of Consolidated Fund.
7. The Treasury may from time to time certify to
one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
the amount which has been paid out of the Con-
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom to fulfil the
guarantee under this Act, and the date of such
payment. Such certificate shall be communicated to
the Governor of New Zealand, and shall be conclusive
evidence of the amount having been so paid, and of
the time when the same was so paid.
Accounts to be laid before Parliament.
8. The Treasury shall cause to be prepared and
laid before both Houses of Parliament a statement of
any guarantee given under this Act, and a copy of
any accounts received by them respecting the expen-
diture of the said loan, and an account of all sums
issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United
Kingdom for the purposes of this Act, within one
month after the same are so given, received, or issued,
if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not
sitting, then within fourteen days after the then next
meeting of Parliament.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 5
The man who died in 1869 was a Swedish sailor,
who came to Ireland with the disease already on him.
In 1870, as far as the returns have been ascer-
tained, only one man has died of small-pox, and only
48 cases of it have been treated, and of these 32 are
referable to contagion imported from England, Scot-
land, and Norway; and in no case of outbreak did
the disease become epidemic.

The Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland give it
as their experience, that whilst it is undoubtedly the
case that vaccination does not in every instance
render the person vaccinated proof against the dis-
ease, yet it does so in a very large proportion of
cases; and when the disease does attack those who
have been vaccinated, it comes in a modified form,
and is far less fatal, as will be perceived from the
following table, which has been compiled by Mr.
Simon, Medical Officer of the English Privy Council.

CIRCULAR.

Downing Street, 17th October, 1870.

SIR, -In his Circular Despatch of the 3rd of
September, 1867, the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos communicated to you, for the consideration
of your Government, a copy of the Imperial Act 30
and 31 Victoria, cap. 84, for amending and con-
solidating the law relating to vaccination in England.
It is well known that that Act was enacted for
England in view of the very remarkable success
which had attended the system of compulsory
vaccination introduced into Ireland by Sir Robert
Peel's Act of 1863. Since the date of the Duke of
Buckingham's Despatch the progress made in stamp-
ing out small-pox in Ireland has been still more
remarkable than in previous years; and I think it
may be well to put you in possession of the facts of
the whole case.

In the year 1851 an Act of Parliament was passed,
called "The Medical Charities Act (Ireland), 1851,"
by which it was made part of the official duty of
every Dispensary Medical Officer in Ireland to
vaccinate, gratis, all persons coming to him or
brought to him for that purpose. In the ten years
previous to the passing of this Act, the deaths from
small-pox in Ireland had averaged 3,800 a year; in
the seven years subsequent to the Act, from 1851 to
1857, they averaged about 1,500 a-year.

In 1858, Lord Mayo carried through Parliament
an Act providing that the Poor Law Medical Officers
should receive a gratuity of one shilling for every
successful vaccination performed. Owing to the
impetus given to vaccination by this latter Act, the
deaths from small-pox, in the years from 1858 to
1863, did not average more than 1,000 a year. On
the 1st of January, 1864, commenced the operation
of the Act of 1863, which rendered vaccination com-
pulsory, and which, it should be observed, continued
the provision in Lord Mayo's Act whereby the to
Medical Officers had been given a pecuniary interest
in the efficiency of the system they were called on to
administer. The effect of the Act of 1863, in
stamping out small-pox, is shown by the following
table of deaths resulting from that disease, in the
years since its enactment:--

Table showing the proportion of cases of Small-pox
ending fatally amongst persons wholly unvaccinated
and persons more or less efficiently vaccinated.
CLASS I. Amongst persons unvaccinated ... 35½
CLASS II. " stated to have been vaccinated, but bearing
no vaccine scar ... 21½
CLASS III. " having one vaccine scar ... 7½
CLASS IV. " having two vaccine scars ... 4
CLASS V. " having three vaccine scars ... 1¾
CLASS VI. " having four or more scars ... ¾

I need only further observe that the efficient
working of a compulsory Vaccination Act must be
wholly dependent on an efficient registration of
births. Such success as has been attained in Ireland
cannot be looked for if any appreciable number of the
infant population are left unvaccinated, and this
cannot be guarded against unless the registration of
births is as nearly perfect as may be. In Ireland,
Parliament has done the utmost that can be done to
prevent any thing of the kind, by combining the
duties of Registrar with those of Medical Officer and
Public Vaccinator; those who have a pecuniary
interest in the extension of vaccination being thus
put in a position to know of every case in which it
may be performed.

You will communicate this Despatch to the Legis-
lature of the Colony under your government, at the
same time bringing the Act forwarded to you by the
Duke of Buckingham again under its notice, unless
the Colony has adopted the compulsory system; but
in any case, it will be useful that the remarkable facts
as regard small-pox in Ireland should be made
publicly known.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

1864 ... 854 deaths.
1865 ... 347 "
1866 ... 187 "
1867 ... 20 "
1868 ... 19 "
1869 ... 1 death.

Per cent. of cases end in death.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st December, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint HANSON TURTON, Esq.,
to be the Patent Officer under "The Patents Act,
1870."

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS MEREDITH SMITH,
of Dunstan, to be an Inspector of Weights and
Measures in the Province of Otago, vice Thomas
Neil, resigned.

W. GISBORNE.