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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

Islington 1909

Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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Table: Table CXVIII. Showing the result of the Bacteriological Examinations made for tin Diagnosis of Diphtheria, Enteric Fever and Phthisis, 18981909.

Table CXVIII. Showing the result of the Bacteriological Examinations made for tin Diagnosis of Diphtheria, Enteric Fever and Phthisis, 18981909.

Periods.Diphtheria.Enteric Fevre.Phthisis.Totals.
Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.
1898 (6 months)112031311748......79
1899475097255176364379252
19004362105334578354479262
190180901706646112284371353
1902527012245691143983122358
19031464781554694096136283
19042858861439534689135274
1905618614734225687131218421
190668991672729565796153376
19078813522325345968121189471
19089318828134255969136205545
19096423630020355560162222577
Totals (for 11½ years)64911581807369466835565104416094251

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VACCINATION.
The returns dealing with vaccination relate to the year 1908, as it is
impossible for the vaccination officers, owing to removals and postponements
of vaccination, to collect the statistics within at least nine
months of the close of the year. From the returns for 1908, it appears
that out of 8,317 children who were born, 5,595 were successfully vaccinated;
31 were insusceptible to vaccination; 595 died unvaccinated; 588 were excused
vaccination on production of exemption certificates, and 89 were postponed by
medical certificate, leaving 1,419 not finally accounted for. These 1,419 cases,
together with the exemptions and the cases postponed by medical certificates,
numbering in all 2,096, represented 25.2 per cent. of the births, which is 3 per
cent. more than the return of the preceding year.