Smallpox Inoculation Census of 1824 - Boston Western District, Ward Seven

 In 1824 the city physician of Boston offered residents vaccinations for smallpox. The unique document produced from this effort is the 1824 inoculation census, part of which was found, according to writing on the original document, among the papers of "Boston artist [and] miniature painter" Henry Williams. The census shows the names of heads of family, number of persons in household, number not vaccinated, residence, physician, and remarks (which includes a notation if a person had moved, refusal to get inoculated, etc). This document was transcribed by Sandra M. Hewlett.

The original handwritten census is part of the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, call number MSS C 1011.

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