Patients could transmit smallpox after inoculation, so the State of New Hampshire tried to prevent the spread by passing an act in 1776 that forbade people from inoculating themselves or others without a license. An article in the New-Hampshire Gazette informed the public that the fine was thirty pounds. Courtesy of Newspaperarchive.com.
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