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Poplar 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Vaccination.
The following particulars regarding vaccination have been taken
from the Vaccination Officer's reports:—
Extraot from the Report of the Vaccination Officer, respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered from 1st January to 31st December, 1930, inclusive:—
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births registered 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1930. | Number of Births entered by 31st January, 1930, in "Vaccination Register." | Number of Births which on 31st January, 1931, remained unentered in "Vaccination Register." | Number of Births neither entered in the "Vaccination Register" nor accounted for in Columns 8, 9 and 10. | Total number of Certificates of Successful Primary Vaccination of Children under 14 received during the calendar year 1931. | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection actually received during the calendar year 1931. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col. I Successfully vaccinated . | Col. II | Col. IV Number in respect of whom Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection have been received. | Col. V Died unvac-cinated. | |||||||||
| Postponement by Medical Certificate. | Removals to Districts the Vaccination Officers of which have been duly apprised. | Removals to places unknown, cases not found, etc. | ||||||||||
| Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Smallpox. | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) |
| Poplar | 1402 | 206 | — | 1 | 869 | 71 | — | 22 | 30 | 203 | 708 | 1472 |
| Bow and Bromley | 1047 | 199 | 1 | — | 651 | 43 | — | 16 | 24 | 113 | ||
| Total | 2449 | 405 | 1 | 1 | 1520 | 114 | — | 38 | 54 | 316 | 708 | 1472 |
Note.—(a) The total of the figures in Columns 3 to 11 should agree with the figure in Column 2.—The number of children successfully vaccinated after the
declaration of conscientious objection had been made was Nil.
(b) The figures in Columns 2 to 11 should not include re-registered births.
(c) The total number of copies of certificates for the year 1931 sent to other Vaccination Officers was 201.