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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
Paddington 1895
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1895
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them of the advantages of vaccination, by the experiences
of Warrington, Sheffield, and elsewhere.*
The 14th of May, 1896, will see the completion of
the century since Jenner performed his first vaccination
of the human subject. The occasion is to be marked
by festivals in Russia, Germany, and the United
States, but nothing is announced in this country.
TABLE 8. Vaccination returns for years 1881-1894.
| Year. | Births. | Successfully vaccinated. | Insusceptible of vaccinatiou. | Had Small-pox. | Died unvaccinated. | Vaccination postponed. | Remaining (not traced, &c., &c.)* | Children not finally accou't'd for (including postpo'ed cases) % of births. |
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* Gone away, false addresses, “unaccounted for.”
* Since the commencement of the autumn of 1895 small-pox has been
prevalent in Gloucester, one of the worst vaccinated towns in the Kingdom,
and with the commencement of the current year the disease assumed the
proportions of an epidemic likely to decimate the population. Needless to
say that the authorities have hastened to undo a fraction of the harm they have
done in refusing to enforce the Vaccination laws, and that a large increase of
utaff for vaccination has been requisite.