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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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| Number. | Percentage of Births registered. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North. | East. | West. | South. | Whole Borough. | North. | East. | West. | South. | Whole Borough. | |
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 0.4 | ||||||||||
It will be seen that 1,282, or 25.3 per cent. of the children born, were the
subjects of certificates of conscientious objection to vaccination, the percentage
being as high as 36.2 per cent. in the North division.
The children with such certificates, together with those unvaccinated and
not otherwise accounted for (bottom row in table), numbered 1,494 or 29.4 per
cent. of the total births.
The corresponding figures for the past ten years arc as follows: —
| Year. | Births, | Successfully vaccinated. | Per cent. | Conscientious Objections, and Children otherwise escaping Vaccination. | Per cent. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 6384 | 3923 | 61.5 | 120 | 1.9 |
| 1904 | 6157 | 3891 | 63.2 | 138 | 2.2 |
| 1905 | 5816 | 3798 | 65.3 | 93 | 1.6 |
| 1906 | 5816 | 3952 | 68.0 | 80 | 1.4 |
| 1907 | 5508 | 3351 | 60.8 | 226 | 4.1 |
| 1908 | 5437 | 3357 | 61.7 | 618 | 11.3 |
| 1909 | 5285 | 3097 | 58.6 | 622 | 11.8 |
| 1910 | 5394 | 2787 | 51.7 | 953 | 17.6 |
| 1911 | 5139 | 2353 | 45.8 | 1235 | 24.4 |
| 1912 | 5079 | 2318 | 45.6 | 1149 | 22.6 |
| 1913 | 5074 | 2050 | 40.4 | 1494 | 29.4 |