If parish officers were obliged by Act of Parliament to apply to the Hospital for the admission of every man or woman who should either on their own account, or on behalf of their children, express a desire of being inoculated, and on their being taken in to supply each with two new shirts or shifts, and sign an obligation to provide decent new cloathing for every one on their receiving notice of their recovery and time of dismission, and also to give a small gratuity (suppose half a crown) to every person of the age of          and to the parents of every child, on producing a certificate of their having behaved decently, and complied with the rules of the house, signed by the physician, it would probably be a sufficient inducement, and at the same time the fresh cloathing would effectually prevent the spreading the disease to others. And this could not be reasonably deemed a hardship, since some of the most respectable old Hospitals exact as much on admission of parish patients[5]. ----- Footnote 5: At St. Thomas’s Hospital, every patient on admission pays 2s. 6d. if clean, or 10s. 6d. if venereal; and the overseer or churchwarden of the parish signs an obligation that he will find clean body linen every week, and pay four pence a day so long as he continues in the Hospital, and receive him when discharged, or take away the body, or pay the burial fees to the steward of the Hospital, in case of death. ----- It is scarcely to be doubted but that Parliament would chearfully embrace a plan of this nature, which has for its object the preservation of the lives of the poor, and carrying them and their children safely through this terrible disease, without endangering their neighbourhoods. Parishes would likewise find their account in it: by a known moderate charge they would be released from the contingent great expence of maintaining many sick families, occasionally afflicted with the Small Pox in the natural way; oftentimes to the great injury of trade and manufactures: and this by a trifling advance to be bestowed but once during the life of an individual, who would be maintained about three weeks without any further expence, and return home to wear the cloaths they had bestowed on him. Thus much I have thought necessary to state, from a moral certainty that some provision of this sort should be made; to proceed, would be entering into minute matters that would more properly belong to the governors, who will be best able to make such regulations as may be for the general benefit of the charity.