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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table 24 shows the number and percentage of children found
unvaccinated at the different years in each of the schools examined.
The total unvaccinated at all ages is as already stated 12.69,
and this Table shows that from 3 to 8 years the percentage is above
this, and from 9 to 16 years it is below.
It is noteworthy that the percentage of unvaccinated is highest
at the lowest age, and this agrees with the returns of the Vaccination
Officer, viz.: —that the percentage of children unvaccinated has, in
this Borough as well as in London generally, increased during the
last 10 years. The lowest percentage (excluding ages 15 and 16)
occurred at 12 years.
The total number of children showing marks of re-vaccination
was 742, or 8.27 per cent, of the number examined.
The percentage of re-vaccinated varies greatly in the different
schools, the lowest being Ensham Street, 86, and the highest St.
Mary's, Balham, 24.32. In the latter this shows that nearly onefourth
of the children examined had been recently re-vaccinated.
The names and addresses of all the unvaccinated children have
been sent to the Vaccination Officer of the district in which they
reside. In the case of children not resident in this Borough, of
which there are a large number, the list of unvaccinated has been
sent to the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough in which they
reside.
I have been informed that a large proportion of the children
have been visited by the several Public Vaccinators and re-vaccinated,
but sufficient time has not elapsed to enable me to prepare
statistics on the re-vaccination of these children.