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will be made to get out the figures for the past years
and to keep them up to date.
VACCINATION.
Table 6 contains the summary of the returns of
vaccinations performed, etc., since 1881. The figures
for the years 1881-91 have been taken from the
Reports by the Medical Officer to the Local Government
Board, those for the years subsequent to 1891
have been supplied by the Vaccination Officer for the
Parish. The return for 1894 is for the first half of
the year only.
The last column of the Table contains the
most useful information, viz.: the proportion which
unvaccinated children bear to the total births
registered. Such children form centres from which
the infection of small-pox may spread, and in which
the disease may be perpetuated. On these grounds
the decrease in the proportion since 1891 is very
satisfactory.
During the autumn, a house-to-house inspection
of certain streets was made, with reference to vaccination.
The Report of the Vaccination Officer
contains the following information:—
250 streets were visited, inquiries being made at each house.
Of the 492 children found to be unvaccinated 275 were
immigrants, of whom 120 were from St. Marylebone.
Between July 27th and September 21st, 455 vaccinations
and 61 re-vaccinations were performed at the station,
compared with 180 vaccinations during the corresponding
period of 1893.