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During the year 1900, of 5,817 births, 3,932 (or 67.6 per cent.)
were successfully vaccinated, compared with 68.1 per cent. in 1899,
and 62 per cent. in 1898; so that the percentage is slightly lower
than it was in 1899, a record which is not at all a satisfactory
one, as it was anticipated that, after the passing of the 1898
Vaccination Act, infantile vaccination would have shown a decided
and growing increase. In the separate sub-districts the percentage
of successfully vaccinated was as follows: Clapham 62.5,
Putney 71, Streatham 63.7, and Wandsworth 74.
Deducting the number of children who died unvaccinated,
as well as the number postponed, insusceptible, removals, and the
number of certificates of conscientious objections granted, the
total number left unaccounted for amounts to 833, compared with
869 last year. This does not give any idea of the total unvaccinated
children in the Borough, but if the number who died
unvaccinated be added to the total vaccinated then the number
who were not, but who ought to have been, vaccinated was 1,317
or 22.6 per cent.
The number of certificates of conscientious objection obtained
was 79, compared with 111 in 1899, and 80 in 1898.