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number of 61 remained Unvaccinated. In the present
Return it will be seen that of the 271 births in the past
year (1870) the small number of 14 Unvaccinated children
are noted.*
With such an everchanging population as that of Putney,
several of these Unvaccinated children it is reasonable to
suppose may have been removed from the district, and a
few others may have been too delicate or too ill to be submitted
to Vaccination within the prescribed period ; so that
it is not by any moans improbable that the majority of the
survivors of these 14 unprotected infants may ultimately
receive the desired protection in some other locality, and in
due course be registered in this parish. In my own practice
I am aware of some few cases of postponed Vaccination from
causes I have had no hesitation in certifying as being just
and reasonable and I have no doubt other practitioners
must have noted the same. I have great pleasure, then, in
reporting the above great diminution in the number of
Unvaccinated children. †

† At the earlier part of the present year, 1871, I was permitted by
the Managing Committee to examine the arms of the pupils of both
sexes of the National Schools, with the result of finding that 11 only of
430 children, or 2.5 per cent., being found without some marks of Vaccination.
All those that were discovered to be without visible cicatrices,
and others in which such cicatrices were indistinct or slight, were recommended
to receive the protection forthwith, and I believe my suggestions,
in the majority of instances, was followed.