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Islington 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1926]
Return furnished by the Vaccination Officers respecting the Vaccination of Children in the Sub-Registration Districts during the previous year 1925.
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births registered in 1925 | 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 (Defaulters). | Total Number of Certificates of Primary Vaccination of children under 14 years received during year 1926. | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1926. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | 481 | 277 | 1 | - | 133 | 22 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 129 | |
| Up. Holloway | 621 | 306 | — | — | 207 | 40 | 3 | 26 | 29 | 10 | 1.629 | 248 |
| Tollington | 443 | 211 | 1 | — | 150 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 34 | 138 | |
| Highbury | 890 | 434 | 7 | — | 316 | 35 | 8 | 20 | 38 | 32 | 324 | |
| Lr. Holloway | 742 | 335 | — | — | 255 | 47 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 78 | 272 | |
| Barnsbury | 1061 | 542 | 4 | — | 363 | 56 | 10 | 6 | 40 | 40 | 1.955 | 339 |
| Islington, S.E. | 1252 | 528 | 1 | — | 549 | 50 | 9 | 10 | 45 | 60 | 601 | |
| The Borough | 5490 | 2633 | 14 | — | 1973 | 266 | 44 | 89 | 205 | 266 | 3.584 | 1,951 |
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms.—3,533 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with
3,767 in 1925., For this purpose formaldehyde 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 Tuberculosis, vide p. 86.
| Rooms Disinfected. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 1925 | |
| 1st Quarter | 921 | 915 |
| 2nd „ | 807 | 922 |
| 3rd „ | 736 | 995 |
| 4th „ | 1,069 | 935 |
| The Year | 3,533 | 3,767 |
Work at the Disinfecting Station.—42,950 large articles of bedding,
etc., as detailed below, were disinfected by the steam disinfectors, at the Council's
Disinfecting Station, compared with 35,076 similar articles disinfected during the
previous year.
In addition to the above articles, 25,503 second-hand garments, mostly
overcoats, jackets, tunics and British warms were disinfected for clothing contractors
trading in the Borough, who paid the Council for the work, amounting
to the sum of £68 15s. 0d.
Altogether, 68,453 articles described in the two paragraphs preceding were
disinfected. Since the disinfecting station was established 2,159,245 large
articles have been disinfected.