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1906
188
Talbe CXIV.
Showing the result of the Bacteriological Examinations made for the
Diagnosis of Diphtheria, Enteric Fever and Phthisis, 1898 1906.
Periods.
Diphtheria.
Enteric Fever.
Phthisis.
Totals.
Positive
Results.
Negative
Results.
Total
Examined.
Positive
Results.
Negative
Results.
Total
Examined.
Positive
Results.
Negative
Results.
Total
I Examined.
1898
6 months)
11
20
31
31
17
48
..
..
..
79
1899
47
50
97
25
51
76
36
43
79
252
1900
43
62
105
33
45
78
35
44
79
262
1901
80
90
.170
66
46
112
28
43
71
353
1902
52
70
122
45
69
114
39
83
122
358
1903
14
64
78
15
54
69
40
96
136
283
1904
28
58
86
14
39
53
46
89
135
274
1905
61
86
147
34
22
56
87
131
218
421
1906
68
99
167
27
29
56
57
96
153
376
Totals (for 8½ years)
404
599
1003
290
372
662
368
625
993
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THE STATE OF VACCINATION.
The complete returns of the children vaccinated in Islington can only be
given for the year ending 1905 as they cannot be made up tor fully twelve
months after the year has closed. The last return is not so good as that for
1904, for it is found that the vaccinations were in the proportion of 80.5 per
100 births (less infants who died un-vaccinated) as compared with 823 in
that year.
Notwithstanding this falling off, the figure is higher than any that had
been registered between 1894 and 1903.
It may be seen in the return which is given on the next page, that from
1880 to the end of 1894 the percentage was never less than 84 per cent., while
it was as high as 91.1 per cent, in 1882.
During the year 1905, out of 8,603 infants born, 6,360 were successfully
vaccinated, 28 proved insusceptible to the operation, 709 died before the time
arrived for their vaccination, and 66 were postponed on the production of a
medical cetitificate. There were also 110 exemption certificates granted to
conscientious objectors, so that altogether there remained 1,330 children,
or 17*5 per cent., who were not finally accounted for.