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to vaccination. It is also suggested that the time allowed for
infantile vaccination should be extended to six months ; that
public vaccinators should be enabled to offer calf vaccine in all
cases; that, when required, they should attend at people's own
homes, and that private practitioners should be paid by the
public for vaccinating, and be subjected to inspection like the
public vaccinators. It is proposed that the sanitary authorities
should be made the vaccinating authorities, and they are
recommended to use all possible means to encourage revaccination
(e.g., by handbills).
I called the attention of the Vestry to the danger to Plumstead
from the unvaccinated condition of West Ham. I found
that whereas in Plumstead of the children born in 1891 there
were only two still unvaccinated, and prosecutions had taken
place in both cases, in West Ham there were 975 unvaccinated,
and no prosecutions had taken place. A letter was sent to the
Local Government Board pointing out this danger to Plumstead.
I also advised, as on previous occasions, that handbills should
be printed recommending voluntary re-vaccination, in view of
the serious prevalence of Small Pox in various parts of the
country. The Health Committee ordered me to prepare a bill,
but unfortunately it was found that the Plumstead Vestry had
no power to spend money in the way recommended by the
Royal Commission.
SCAHLET FEVEK.
17. Scarlet Fever.—There were 352 cases of Scarlet Fever,
compared with 61, 584, 527, 480, and 328 in the five preceding
years. Thus the steady decline in the prevalence of Scarlet
Fever, which I referred to last year, has had a check.
215 cases went to Hospital compared with 194 in the previous