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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 1899
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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1899
TABLE C. Showing the State of Vaccination in Islington, 1880-98, also in London and England and Wales, 1880-96.
| Year . | No. of Births. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible to Vaccination. | Died unvaccinated. | No. of exemption certificates. | Postponed by Medical certificate. | Remaining. | Cases (cols. 6,7, & 8), not finally vaccinated per 100 births. | In London. | Rest of England. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 1880 | 9,931 | 8,123 | 26 | 885 | Not granted for years previous to 1897. | 118 | 779 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 4.5 |
| 1881 | 9,993 | 8,339 | 21 | 812 | 89 | 730 | 8.2 | 5.7 | 4.3 | |
| 1882 | 10,000 | 8,360 | 22 | 819 | 155 | 644 | 8.0 | 6.6 | 4.5 | |
| 1883 | 9,950 | 8,192 | 25 | 890 | 194 | 644 | 8.4 | 6.8 | 4.9 | |
| 1884 | 9,892 | 8.121 | 47 | 924 | 191 | 601 | 8.0 | 6.8 | 5.3 | |
| 1885 | 9,683 | 7,874 | 41 | 991 | 157 | 617 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 5.5 | |
| 1886 | 9,844 | 7,944 | 39 | 1,091 | 148 | 622 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 6.1 | |
| 1887 | 9,732 | 7,769 | 44 | 1,133 | 171 | 615 | 8.1 | 9.0 | 6.7 | |
| 1888 | 9,620 | 7,522 | 39 | 1,112 | 219 | 728 | 9.8 | 10.3 | 8.2 | |
| 1889 | 9,638 | 7,581 | 22 | 1,120 | 198 | 717 | 9.5 | 11.6 | 9.6 | |
| 1890 | 9,239 | 7,250 | 19 | 1,117 | 122 | 731 | 9.2 | 13.9 | 10.9 | |
| 1891 | 9,823 | 7,584 | 33 | 1 145 | 131 | 930 | 10.8 | 16.4 | 12.9 | |
| 1892 | 9,626 | 7,221 | 28 | 1,182 | 127 | 1,048 | 12.2 | 18.4 | 14.3 | |
| 1893 | 9,757 | 7,251 | 38 | 1.222 | 132 | 1,114 | 12.7 | 18.2 | 15.7 | |
| 1894 | 9,574 | 7,151 | 39 | 1,067 | 101 | 1,215 | 13.7 | 20.6 | 19.0 | |
| 1895 | 9,959 | 7,079 | 50 | 975 | 237 | 1,620 | 18.7 | 24.9 | 19.8 | |
| 1896 | 9,752 | 6,575 | 46 | 854 | 223 | 2,054 | 23.4 | 26.4 | 22.3 | |
| 1897 | 9,878 | 6,539 | 30 | 954 | 14 | 220 | 2,135 | 24.0 | not available. | not available. |
| 1898 | 9,478 | 5,422 | 44 | 1,068 | 103 | 251 | 2,693 | 32.2 | ,, | ,, |
| 1890 six m'ths | 4,911 | 2,881 | 49 | 527 | 52 | 226 | 1,234 | 30.7 | ,, | ,, |
Note.—The figures in Column 8 are obtained by adding together the numbers
given in Columns 3, 4, sand 7 and deducting the total from the number in Column 2.
The figures in Column 9 is a percentage statement, obtained by adding together the
numbers given in Columns 6, 7 and 8 and applying them to the numbers in Column 2.
The very responsible duty of enforcing the vaccination laws
now clearly rests on the Vaccination Officers, if Boards of Guardians
fail in their manifest duty, as it has been decided in Bramble
v. Love, "that a vaccination officer is, without any special authority
in that behalf from the Guardians of the Union for which he acts,
empowered to take proceedings under sec. 31 of the Vaccination
Act, 1867, for an order directing an unvaccinated child to be
vaccinated, notwithstanding the provisions of art. 16 of the Order
of the Local Government Board of the 31st October, 1874."