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City of London 1909
Annual report of Medical Officer of Health for 1909
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| Year. | Number of Births. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible. | Had Small-pox. | Died before Vaccination. | Vaccination Postponed. | Cases pending or removed at the end of the year. | Conscientious Objections. |
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VACCINATION ACT, 1907.
It will be seen that the number of conscientious objectors continue to
increase. This is doubtless due to the Vaccination Act of 1907, which is
a direct encouragement to persons not to protect their children from the risk
attending an attack of small-pox.
MORTALITY.
During the year under review, 912 deaths were registered in the District,
including *725 persons dying in the City, but not belonging thereto. See
Table, p. 20, for details.
Deducting the latter 187 deaths remain, to which must be added 105 persons
who died at City Institutions in outside districts, where they were registered.
The mortality, therefore, from which the City death rate is calculated is 292.
The death rate for 1909 was 16.0 per 1,000 per annum of the population (the previous year being 12.6), whilst that for the whole of the Metropolis was 14.0.
| Year. | City of London. | 76 Great Towns of England and Wales. | Metropolis. |
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In comparing the above with the Registrar-General's Returns, some
discrepancies will be observed, due to the fact that 1 have not been
furnished with the number of citizens who died in Institutions other than
those with which the City is connected.
* These deaths occurred in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and the Union Depot, Thavies Inn.