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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
Finsbury 1902
Report on the public health of 1902
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| Ages. | Vaccinated. | Unknown. | Unvaccinated. | Total cases and deaths. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | Cases. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | Cases. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | Cases. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 60.0 | ||
| 1 to 5 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 38.0 | 22 | 36.3 | |||
| — | — | — | — | — | 17 | 5 | 23 | 5 | 21.7 | |||
| 10—15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 7.6 | 29 | 3 | 10.3 | |||
| 35 | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | 5 | 5 | 11.1 | |||
| Total under 20 | 57 | 1 | 1.7 | 100 | 33.3 | 124 | 24 | 19.3 | ||||
| 37 | 4 | — | — | — | 5 | 1 | 20.0 | 42 | 5 | 11.9 | ||
| 33 | 1 | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 3 | 1 | 33.3 | 3 | 8.1 | ||
| 30—35 | 1 | 4.5 | — | —_ | —_ | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 23 | 8.6 | ||
| 14 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 15 | 3 | 20.0 | |||
| 1 | 3.8 | 1 | 1 | 100 | — | — | — | 27 | 7.4 | |||
| 4 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 100 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1.5 | ||
| 60—70 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total between 20 and 80 | 137 | 9 | 6.5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 151 | ||||
| Grand Total | 10 | 5.1 | 4 | 4 | 77 | 33.7 | 275 | 40 | 14.5 | |||
The cases have been divided into three groups, namely (1)
Vaccinated, that is cases having visible signs of vaccination or about
which there was no doubt that vaccination had been performed at
some time during the life of the patient; (2) Unknown, including
the four cases about which it was impossible to obtain information;
and (3) Unvaccinated, that is cases admittedly unvaccinated or
bearing no marks of the operation.
The Table speaks for itself and deserves careful study It may,
however, be useful to consider the statistics as grouped under age
periods.
Under Ten Years of Age.—The vaccinated cases numbered seven,
and there was no death. These seven children had come into close
personal contact with cases of small-pox in the pustular stage. At
the same age-period the number of unvaccinated cases was 43 and
there were 16 deaths, yielding a mortality percentage of 37.2.