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The death rate from cancer for all London for the year 1910 is
.94 per 1,000 persons living.
ALCOHOLISM.
During 1910 there were 6 deaths registered as due to acute
alcoholic poisoning. In addition there were 20 deaths due to
cirrhosis of the liver, a condition caused as a rule by excessive
indulgence in alcohol, extending over considerable periods.
VACCINATION.
The following table gives a summary of the returns made by
the vaccination officers of the Borough, respecting the vaccination
of children whose births were registered in Hackney from the
1st January to the 30th June, 1910, also supplementary figures
for the whole year 1910. During the whole year there were 5,608
births registered in the Borough, of which 2,877. were successfully
vaccinated. This is equal to 51.3 per cent. of the total. This is a
decline of 6.8 per cent. on the percentage of successful vaccinations
made during 1909. During the year 1910 statutory declarations
of conscientious objection were received by the vaccination officers
to the number of 1,329. This is equivalent almost to 23.7 per cent.
of the total number of births. To allow a yearly default in vaccination
of nearly 30 per cent. is inevitably to prepare the way for a
disastrous outbreak of smallpox in the Borough. For some years
the neglect of vaccination has been increasing in the Borough; it
cannot be long before a serious outbreak of smallpox takes place,
unless means are adopted to enforce vaccination and re-vaccination
more thoroughly.