Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The number of successful vaccinations by the Public Vaccinators during 1935 was as under:—
Primary vaccinations— | |
Under 1 year | 1,080 |
1 year and upwards | 53 |
1,133 | |
Re-vaccinations | 28 |
1,151 | |
Certificates issued, children under 14 (including children born in other districts) | 1,816 |
Statutory declarations of conscientious objection received during the year | 689 |
Full statistics for the year 1935 had not been prepared at the time this report went to print, the last figures available being for the year 1934, as under:—
Children whose births were registered during the year ended 31st December, 1934— | Number of births registered | 2,765 |
Successfully vaccinated | 1,594 | |
Insusceptible of vaccination | 3 | |
Had small-pox | - | |
Statutory declarations of conscientious objection | 666 | |
Died unvaccinated | 135 | |
Postponement by medical certificate | 46 | |
Removed to other districts | 235 | |
Removals untraced, &c | 68 | |
Not yet accounted for | 18 | |
2,765 |
Scarlet Fever.
The incidence of scarlet fever was again lower in 1935, 417
cases being notified as compared with 616 in the previous year.
No death was registered from the disease.
In 54 other notified cases (not included in the above total)
the diagnosis of scarlet fever was not confirmed at hospital.
Of the cases notified 409 or 98.1 percent, were removed to
hospital. The infected houses numbered 361.