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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
Wandsworth 1919
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1919
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 91
Small-pox.
No vaccination or re-vaccination was performed by the Medical
Officer of Health under the Public Health (Small-pox) Regulations
during the year.
Vaccination.
Table LVIII. is taken from the official returns of the Vaccination
Officers to the Board of Guardians for the year 1918. It
shows the number of children successfully vaccinated for the whole
Borough, as well as for the separate sub-districts. Streatham,
Balham and Tooting are included under the heading of Streatham.
| Sub-Districts. | Number of Births returned from ist January to 31st December, 1918. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccin-ation. | Had Small-pox. | Dead, Unvaccinated. | Certificates of Conscientious objection. | Postponed by Medical Certificate. | Removed to District, Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised. | Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be traced; and cases not having been found. | Remaining on Books as Unvaccinated. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 749 | 55 | 190 | 19 | 21 | 91 | |||||
| 42 | 334 | |||||||||
| 95 | 23 | |||||||||
| 281 |
The percentage of children vaccinated to total births was
only 47, 47 in Clapham, 68 in Putney, 37 in Streatham, etc., and
57 in Wandsworth.
Anthrax.
No cases were reported during the year.
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