6.--Mr. Edward Rigby, Mayor of Norwich, in a letter to the NORFOLK
CHRONICLE, advocated vaccine inoculation. He wrote: "I inoculated my
twin children when they were eight months old with smallpox ichor, and
they resisted the infection. Since then I have exposed them to patients
under smallpox and at that period of the disease when most likely to
communicate infection, which, as before, they were insusceptible to."
9.--Mdlle. Eloise Adelaide de Bourbon, daughter of the Prince of Conde,
took the veil at Bodney Hall, the retreat of the nuns of Montargis.
--A "bugle man" of the Norwich Rifle Corps, named Hardingham, was killed
by the accidental discharge of a rifle at target practice. His remains
were interred, with military honours, in St. Giles' churchyard on the
11th.
16.--At a meeting held at the Guildhall, presided over by the Mayor of
Norwich, resolutions were adopted for taking the best means of stopping
the progress of the contagion of smallpox, and of extending vaccine
inoculation. A committee afterwards presented a memorial in favour of
vaccination. On September 14th it was announced that nearly 400 of the
poor had been vaccinated.
24.--A gift of silver plate was presented to Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., at
Hethel, by the Chairman and Committees of Chief Constables in Humbleyard
and adjacent Hundreds, as "a testimonial of esteem and respect and
approbation of the able and upright manner in which he had discharged the
duties of a magistrate for more than half a century."
27.*--"At Diss, a number of labourers in husbandry refused to work for
the customary wages, and being out of employment applied to the
magistrates, who advised the parish officers to put them to work, which
they accordingly did. Their business was to carry bricks in a hod from
Palgrave to Diss, a distance of two miles. This medicine had the desired
effect, for after two days they returned to their former employment."