Horse Guards. 15th November 1803.

It is H.R.H. the C.in C's pleasure that the strictest attention shall be paid to the Surgical examination of Recruits immediately on joining their Regiments, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they have ever had the Disorders either of the small, or cow pock, and H.R.H. injoins a Officers in the command of Regiments to use their best endeavours to cause the whole of the men in their respective Regiments, on whom there are no evident marks of their having had one, or other of these disorders, to be inoculated with the vaccine matter - the process of which experience has shown to be perfectly safe, and which (as it does not require confinement) is attended with little or no Inconvenience.

By Order of His Royal Highness
The Commander in Chief
Signed Harry Calvert A.G.

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