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The cases were distributed as to age in the following manner:—
Cases.
Under 1 year 10
1 to 5 years 42
5 to 15 years 121
15 to 25 years 108
25 to 65 years 183
The majority of the cases were, as seen from the above table, adults.
The conditions of the cases with respect to vaccination, I was only
able to ascertain in a few cases before removal to Hospital, so I do
not propose to make any observations on this aspect of the question,
as an analysis of the whole of the cases for London will give more
reliable information as to the relationship between vaccination and
immunity from small-pox.
Of course, in this disease, all the cases which could be removed
were sent immediately to the fever hospital. All the cases discovered
were removed to hospital except the few which died before
removal was possible.
The deaths during the whole epidemic numbered 76. This is
equal to a death-rate of 16-3 per cent, attacked, and -34 per 1,000
living persons.
Measures taken to deal with the Epidemic. (1) Vaccination
and re-Vaccination. Naturally our first care was to endeavour to
get as many as possible of the inhabitants of Hackney protected by
vaccination and re-vaccination. The first proceeding was to male
enquiries as to the state of vaccination of the children attending tlie
Board Schools. The result of this examination is given in my last
year's report: but I wish to state here that we were able to examine
the arms of nearly 13,000 children, and the names and addresses
of all those children whom we found unvaccinated or imperfectly
vaccinated, I sent on to the public vaccinators who were able to gel
most of them vaccinated.