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Immediately after breakfast, walked to Halifax (Betty being cleaning my room). Sat an hour with Mrs Rawson. She mentioned the great alarm now prevailing at Leeds and other places about vaccination, several children having, not withstanding, been seized with the smallpox. Many were having their children inoculated and in many instances the infants had been taken in spite of previous vaccinations which had been pronounced perfectly good at the time. It seems, however, to be observed that those who have been vaccinated have the smallpox more favourably and much more mildly.

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Friday 2 May (Halifax)
Immediately after breakfast, walked to Halifax (Betty being cleaning my room) … Sat an hour with Mrs Rawson. She mentioned the great alarm now prevailing at Leeds & other places about vaccination, several children having, not withstanding, been seized with the smallpox. Many were having their children inoculated & in many instances the infants had been taken in spite of previous vaccinations which had been pronounced perfectly good at the time. It seems, however, to be observed that those who have been vaccinated have the smallpox more favourably & much more mildly.

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• Lister, Anne (1791-1840) (8), wealthy diarist, famous for revelations for which she has been dubbed "the first modern lesbian" ·
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