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Holborn 1922

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922

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conclude from the relatively mildness of some recent outbreaks of the disease
that the infection has definitely assumed a mild character.
Tlie following Table shows the incidence of smallpox in England and Wales,
London and the Borough of Holborn during the twenty years 1902-21.

Smallpox, 1902-21.

YEAR.England and Wales.London.Holborn.
Cases.Deaths.Death Hate per 100,000Cases.Deaths.Death Hate per 100,000.Cases.Deaths.Death Hate |Per 100,000.
192131650.0200 .0100.0
1920263300.11920.0000.0
1919297280.12660.1000.0
19186420.03400.0100.0
1917730.0000.0000.0
1916151180.0200.0000.0
19!592130.01330.1000.0
19146640.0300.0000.0
1913116100.0400.0000.0
191212490.0610.0000.0
1911293230.07290.2000.0
1910135190.0700.0000.0
1909...210.02120.0100.0
1908...120.0400.0000.0
1907...100.0800.0000.0
1906...2!0.13100.0000.0
1905...1160.474100.2100.0
1904...5071.5489250.6620.00
1903...7602.3417130.3200.0
1902...2,4647.57,7981,31428.52174678.5

Vaccination.
Whilst it is true that the extensive vaccination of large numbers of men
during the war years has conferred n degree of immunity, it is equally true that
the resumption of intercourse with all parts of the world, on the cessation of
hostilities, has increased the danger of the spread of infectious illness. Moreover,
the increasingly large number of children who are unvaccinated produces a further
accumulating danger and signs are not wanting that serious outbreaks of smallpox
in England are threatened. The neglect of vaccination can only be fraught with
most grave risks.