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Number of
Schools
examined.
Number of
children on
the Roll.
Number
Unvaccinated.
Number
having only
one mark of
Vaccination.
Percentage
of Unvaccinated.
Percentage
having
one mark.
16 15,652 2,617 1,383 16.7 8.8
Note.—The figures in this table are only approximate, and in all probability
the numbers of those unvaccinated, and of those having only one mark, are very
considerably under the correct figure. The correct figures have not been
obtainable owing, so the Vaccination Officer informs me, to the fact that onethird
of the parents of the children "objected" (under the objection clause
allowed by the School Hoard) to their children being examined If this be taken
into consideration, the percentages should be worked out on a basis of 10,435
instead of 15.652 This would give unvaccinated children 25 per cent. and onemarked
children 13.2 per cent. Most of the unvaccinated children belonged to
the infants' classes.
These figures assist us in forming some opinion as to the number
of persons in the community who have been recently vaccinated or
revaccinated. For example, it would appear that the total number
of such persons (including infant vaccinations) in 1902 was approximately,
25,000 to 30,000. In 1901 the same total was about 15,000
We might therefore conclude that not less than 40,000 persons had
been vaccinated or revaccinated in Finsbury in the two years. But
even then we cannot form even an approximate opinion as to how
many of the remaining 60,000 persons in the Borough had actually
never been vaccinated at all. Yet this is an important figure to
obtain, if possible. Some light may be thrown upon it by the
following returns, for which I am again indebted to Mr. Garstang,
the Vaccination Officer. This is a table of births and of infants
unvaccinated, for one reason or another (the majority of whom do
not reside at place of birth, viz., Lying-in Hospital):—
Years.
No. of Births.
No. of Infants
Unvaccinated.
1897 3,979 770
1898 j 3,949 779
1899 3,864 509
1900 3,812 425
1901 3,792 413
Totals 19,396 2,896