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Fulham 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]

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Table: VACCINATION.

VACCINATION.

Mr. H. Davies, the Vaccination Officer, has supplied me with the following figures relating to his work :—
Number of births registered during 19341,591
Successfully vaccinated927
Insusceptible of vaccination2
Unvaccinated on account of conscientious objections made by the parents391
Died unvaccinated62
Postponed by medical certificate and unvaccinated on 31st January, 193644
Removed to other districts and unvaccinated on 31st January, 193640
Removed to places unknown112
Outstanding on 31st January, 193613
Number of successful primary vaccination certificates received during 19351,269
Number of Conscientious Objection Certificates received during 1935445
The figures show that 58 per cent. of the infants born in 1934 had been successfully vaccinated by the end of January, 1936.

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DISINFECTION.
The following rooms were disinfected and cleansed after infectious diseases, etc.:—

Table: TABLE 62.

TABLE 62.

Diphtheria356
Scarlet Fever304
Phthisis202
Erysipelas45
Scabies57
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis1
Cancer22
Pneumonia11
Measles4
Puerperal Fever4
Puerperal Pyrexia1
Chicken Pox4
Paratyphoid1
Rooms fumigated by request20
Ward of Maternity Home fumigated7
Day Nursery20
Encephalitis Lethargica2
Enteric Fever4
Mumps2
Poliomyelitis3
1070