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Islington 1921

Sixty-sixth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1921] 28

Table: Return furnished by the Vaccination Officers respecting the Vaccination of Children in the Sub Registration Districts during the year 1920.

Return furnished by the Vaccination Officers respecting the Vaccination of Children in the Sub Registration Districts during the year 1920.

Registration Sub-Districts.Number of Births registered in 1920.Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small Pox.Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection.Died Unvaccinated.Postponement by Medical Certificate.Removed to other Districts.Removed to places Unknown.Number of Children remaining Unvaccinated, or not accounted for in Report Book.Total Number of Certificates of Primary Vaccination at All Ages received during year 1921.Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1921.
123456789101112
Tufnell10785214-3585616230461,7431,170
Up. Holloway9385051-286501142556
Tollington7413291-24133243794
Highbury11845105—432563644128
Lr. Holloway11565372—3345916351821,9011,422
Barnsbury16088555—432905769145
Islington, S.E.19938133—7839361480201
The Borough.8698407021-2,866437191133208523,6442,592

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DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms.— 4,081 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with 2,694
in 1920. For this purpose formaldehyde, either in a gaseous form or in solution, was
employed, although it was sometimes augmented by sulphur dioxide, when it was
necessary to kill vermin, for which purpose it has been found most effective. For the
extermination of bugs, however, all the architrave mouldings and skirting boards
behind which they breed are removed, and the walls washed with hot lime.
The above figures also include the disinfection of houses and rooms after Phthisis,
vide p. 24.

Table: The Cleansing and Spraying of Rooms.— 1,653 rooms, as contrasted with 1,586 in 1920, were cleansed and sprayed.

The Cleansing and Spraying of Rooms.— 1,653 rooms, as contrasted with 1,586 in 1920, were cleansed and sprayed.

Rooms Disinfected.Rooms Sprayed.
1921.1920.1921.1920.
1st Quarter858525463397
2nd „664436442379
3rd „955654390385
4th „1,6041,079358425
The Year4,0812,6941,6531,586

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The following class-rooms, etc., were disinfected after the occurrence in them of cases
of the diseases mentioned :
1st Quarter. Duncombe Road L.C.C. Schools (Diphtheria).
2nd Quarter. Nil.
3rd Quarter. Caledonian Road L.C.C. Schools (by request),
4th Quarter Nil.