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1902]
The following return has been kindly prepared for me by Mr. Edwin Davey, Clerk to the Guardians:—
fees paid to public vaccinators and vaccination officers
for the undermentioned years.

edwin davey,
Clerk to the Guardians,
Parish of St. Mary, Islington.
Persons in the Public Health Department Staff Exposed to
Infection.—I think it ought to be known that every member of the Public
Health Department Staff had been re-vaccinated* at the commencement of the
epidemic unless he had previously been similarly protected, and that not one
of them contracted the disease. Altogether 42 persons were exposed to direct
infection, and 7 to indirect infection. The former included those officials
*This statement has since proved to be incorrect because a stripper, who had falsely assured
me that he had been successfully re-vaccinated, contracted the disease while cleansing a room in
which a sporadic case of Small Pox had occurred. He was the only person who had not been
re-vaccinated, and his seizure emphasizes the protecting influence of re-vaccination.—A.E H