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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the 1,477 infants remaining, 15 or .21 per cent. were
stated to have been insusceptible to vaccination; 186 or 2.6 per
cent. in respect of whom certificates of conscientious objection
were received; 333 or 47 per cent. had vaccination postponed by
medical certificate, leaving 722 or 10.1 per cent. as removed, not
to be traced, or otherwise unaccounted for, while 221 or 3.1 per
cent. remained on the books as unvaccinated, compared with 7.7
per cent. as removed, etc., in 1905, and 3.1 remaining as unvaccinated.
There has been a considerable increase in the percentage of
cases removed, and this increase chiefly occurred in the subdistricts
of Streatham and Wandsworth.
If the total number of infants who died unvaccinated be
deducted from the total number of births registered, then of 6,513,
the remaining infants, 78.1 per cent. were successfully vaccinated,
compared with 81.5 in 1905, and 80.5 in 1904; .23 were insusceptible,
compared with .3 and .48; 5.1 per cent. were under certificate
of postponement, compared with 4.2 and 3.4; 2.8 per cent. in
regard to whom certificates of conscientious objection had been
obtained, compared with 2.2 and 2.1; leaving 14.5 per cent. unaccounted
for as regards vaccination, compared with 11.8 and 13.1.
The returns for the year 1906 do not compare favourably with
1905, and show only a slight improvement compared with the
decennial average.