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Wandsworth 1894
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895
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Vaccination.—The next Table, kindly supplied to us by
the Clerk of the Guardians, shows the amount of vaccination
performed in the district during the year 1893.
Out of 4,573 births registered in that year, 3,475 children
were returned as successfully vaccinated, whilst 602 were
accounted for by death, removal, insusceptibility, or postponement,
leaving 496 not traced out, a percentage of 10.8
of the total births, compared with 11.3 in the previous year.
| SUB-DISTRICTS. | Number of Births Returned from 1st January to 31st December 1893 | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Small-pox. | Dead Unvaccinated. | Postponed by Medical Certificate. | Removed to District, Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised. | Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be reached; and cases not having been found. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham | 1101 | 808 | 3 | .. | 110 | 14 | .. | 166 |
| Putney | 461 | 345 | 11 | .. | 37 | 19 | .. | 49 |
| Streatham | 1419 | 1083 | 17 | .. | 133 | 48 | 20 | 118 |
| Wandsworth | 1592 | 1239 | 16 | .. | 160 | 11 | 3 | 163 |
| Totals | 4573 | 3475 | 47 | .. | 440 | 92 | 23 | 496 |
Cholera—It was not thought necessary to add anything
to the precautionary steps that had been taken in 1893
to prepare for the possible advent of cholera.
The London County Council again arranged with Dr.
Klein to make bacteriological investigations into any
suspected case, and this was taken advantage of in one
instance, the result being found to be "negative." The
Local Government Board issued a circular in July
drawing attention to the fact that cholera was often preceded
by diarrhoea excessive in amount, and stating that
they would be prepared to consider favourably any
application to add diarrhoea to the list of notifiable
diseases till the end of the then current quarter.