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Finsbury 1902
Report on the public health of 1902
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Table of Primary Vaccinations in Holborn Union at Decennial Periods, from 1871-1900.
| HOLBORN PORTION. | BOROUGH OF FINSBURY. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clerkenwell, Division | St. Luke Division | ||||||||
| Births. | Vaccinated. | Percentage. | Births. | Vaccinated. | Percentage. | Births. | Vaccinated. | Percentage. | |
| 1871 | 424 | 324 | 76.4 | 817 | 680 | 83.2 | 919 | 818 | 89.0 |
| 1880 | 1040 | 868 | 834 | 2452 | 2040 | 83.3 | 2222 | 1862 | 83.8 |
| 1890 | 919 | 705 | 76.7 | 2226 | 1793 | 85.5 | 1945 | 1370 | 70.4 |
| 1900 | 745 | 519 | 69.5 | 1977 | 1244 | 62.9 | 1835 | 1002 | 54.6 |
It will be noted that immediately preceding the outbreak of
small-pox, the Borough of Finsbury was less vaccinated than it had
been for 30 years.*
Mr. T. J. Garstang, has been good enough also to furnish me with the primary vaccination returns in children performed in 1901 and 1902.
| Clerkenwell. | St. Luke | Totals. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Vaccinations. | Births. | Vaccinations. | Births. | Primary Vaccinations. | |
| 1901 | 1,977 | 2,639 | 1,803 | 1,743 | 3,780 | 4,328 |
| 1902 | 1,934 | 2,296 | 1,657 | 2,160 | 3,591 | 4,456 |
° The proportion of children born unaccounted for as to vaccination in the
Metropolis as a whole in 1900 was 31.8 per cent. It had steadily risen ever
since 1881, when it was only 57 per cent. The neighbouring Borough of
St. Pancras had 439 per cent, unaccounted for in 1899, and 35.1 percent. in
1900. These are undoubted signs of the fact that London was less vaccinated in
1901, when the epidemic began, than it had been for many years.