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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
probable origin of the disease in Stepney, several eases of unrecognised illness, accompanied by a rash
occurring among the members of a family which had been visited by the first patient, who, as above
stated, afterwards attended the London Hospital.
On the 23rd February, a widow, a scrubber at the Mile End Infirmary, residing in Poplar, was
removed to hospital suffering from smallpox. On March 7th, a child was removed from a house in
Eglinton Road, Row, followed by a group of connected cases, but there was no evidence of association
with the infirmary case. Three cases attributed to infection from the Stepney outbreak occurred
in Hackney, and two cases in Shoreditch were probably infected as the result of a visit to the home of one
of the Hackney cases. A third case in Shoreditch could not be connected with any other case. A youth
living in Westminster, but working in Stepney, was also attacked. He had, however, only been employed
there for a week before he contracted the disease, and did not work in the same premises as any of the
Stepney patients. Three sporadic cases occurred in Rethnal Green, and several others in boroughs so
far removed as Paddington, Camberwell and Deptford.

Vaccination
return 3.
The percentage of children born who were exempted by "conscientious objection" certificates
since and including 1898 has been as follows:—1898, 1.4; 1899, 1.0; 1900, 1.0; 1901, 1.1; 1902,
0.8; 1903, 1.0; 1904, 1.1; 1905, 1.2; 1906, 1.5; 1907, 3.1; 1908, 7.3; 1909, 10.1; 1910, 13.6.

Number of
children unaccounted
for
as regards
vaccination
per cent. of
total births.
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12532
c