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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1898
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea...
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TABLE XVI.
| Registration Sub-District. | Number of Births returned in the Birth List Sheets—1898. | Nos. of those births duly entered by the 31st january, 1899, in Cols. 10, 11, and 13, of the Vaccination Register, (Birth List Sheets), viz.:— | No. of Births which on, the 31st March, 1899,remained unentered in the Vaccination Register on account. | Number of those Births remaining on 31st January neither duly entered in Vaccination Register (Col. 3, 4, 5. and 6 of this Return) nor accounted in the Report Book. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col. 10, successfully vaccinated. | Col. 11, Insusceptible of vaccination. | Had Smallpox. | Col. 13, Dead un-vaccinated. | Conscientious Objection Certificates received. | Postponement by Medical Certificate. | Removed to Districts the vaccination officers of which have been apprised. | Removed to places unknown. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) |
| East Battersea | 2433 | 912 | 11 | ... | 268 | 49 | 189 | 18 | 292 | 694 |
| West Battersea | 2755 | 1088 | 6 | ... | 248 | 57 | 164 | 17 | 294 | 881 |
| Totals | 5188 | 2000 | j7 | ... | 516 | 106 | 353 | 35 | 586 | 1575 |
Vaccination In the Annual Report for 1896 a very copious
resume of the report of the Royal Commission on
Vaccination was given. It will not be necessary to reproduce
the body of the report, but the conclusions of the majority report
as well as that of the min6rity are epitomised and here given as well
as the new Vaccination Act. After setting out at great length the
advantages and disadvantages of arm to arm vaccination the report
goes on to say that it is obvious that the employment of calf-lymph
only would wholly exclude the risks as regards both Syphilis and
Leprosy. Respecting the latter disease, however, there appears
to be reason to doubt whether any risk exists, and at any rate it