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Islington 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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186
1910]
Table CIV.
Showing the result oj the Bacteriological Examinations made for th*
Diagnosis of Diphtheria, Enteric Fever and Phthisis, 1898-1910.

Table:

Periods.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Phthisis.Totals.
Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Positive j Results.Negative ! Results. |Total Examined.
1898 (6 months)112031311748.........79
1899475097255176364379252
19004362105334578354479262
190180901706646112284371353
1902527012245691143983122358
19031464781554694096136283
19042858861439534689135274
1905618614734225687131218421
190668991672729565796153376
19078813522325345968121189471
19089318828134255969136205545
19096423630020355560162222577
191012527640132296163157220682
Totals (for 11½ years)77414342208401495896628120118294933

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VACCINATION—OR THE STATE OF PREPAREDNESS TO MEET
SMALL POX.
There can be no doubt that the ability of any community to resist an
invasion of Small Pox, is to be judged mainly by its condition as to vaccination
Facts prove it, statistics show it, and experience teaches it. But for all that
the clamour of the anti-vaccinator is great, and doubtless has its effect on
ignorant, uneducated, thoughtless, and timorous people. In no other way can
the continued fall in the proportion of children vaccinated be accounted for.