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VACCINATION.
These rates, again, are not strictly comparable, as last year's rate includes the returns for Queen's
Park Ward, where the birth-rate was relatively higher than the average rate for the old Parish and
the proportion of illegitimate children lower.
Hitherto no information has been furnished as to tho home addresses of the children born.
Consequently it is impossible to give any indications of the birth-rates for the several Wards. It
is desirable that such information should be available, more especially if any efforts are to be made
to reduce the prevailing infantile mortality.
VACCINATION.
The vaccination returns have been continued down to the end of 1900, the last year for which
a complete return is available. There was a slight increase in the proportion of children vaccinated,
the proportion escaping vaccination falling from 14.6 in 1899 to 13.4 in 1900. The proportion
remaining unvaccinated at tho end of tho first half of 1900 was equivalent to 16.6 per cent, of the
children born during the half year. In the first half of 1901 the proportion was, as regards St.
Mary and St. John Sub-Districts, 10.1 per cent.—a satisfactory diminution. The complete returns
for the three Registration Sub-Districts are given in Table 14. The total number of primary

* Gone away, false addresses, "unaccounted for."