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Wandsworth 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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23
District.
Vaccination.
The next Table, kindly supplied to us by
the Clerk of the Guardians, shows the amount of vaccination
performed in the district during the year 1894.
Out of 4456 births registered in that year, 3379 children
were returned as successfully vaccinated, whilst 479 were
accounted for by death, removal, insusceptibility, or postponement,
leaving 598 not traced out, a percentage of 13.4
of the total births, compared with 10.8 in the previous year.

Table: TABLE XII.

TABLE XII.

sub-districts.Number of Births Returned from 1st January to 31st December 1891Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small-pox.Dead. Unvaccinated.Postponed by Medical Certificate.Removed to District, Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be reached; and cases not having been found.
Clapham10367503..82182181
Putney4663437..371366
Streatham13229524..856516200
Wandsworth163213349..108219151
Totals4456337923••31211727598

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Legislation.
The principal piece of sanitary legislation
produced in 1895 was the Factory and Workshops Act.
At the time of its consideration in Parliament, where it
was very rapidly passed at the end of the Session, we
presented a report to your General Purposes Committee
suggesting several amendments which we considered of
great importance. The recommendations were adopted
by the Board and forwarded to the Home Secretary who
had charge of the Bill. The following report on the
Act shows the principal changes as regards local sanitary
administration effected by it:—