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Bethnal Green 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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VACCINATION. The following is the latest available return by Mr. P. Ivess, Vaccination Officer of the North East and South West Sub-Districts of the Bethnal Green Registration District, respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered from 1st January to 31st December, 1929, inclusive.
| Registration SubDistricts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District. | No. of Births from 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1929. | Number of these Births duly entered by 31st Jan., 1931. | No. of Births which on 31st Jan.. 1931, remained unentered in the Vaccination Register on account of— | No. of these births remaining on 31st Jan., 1931, not accounted for | Total No. ot Certificates of successful Primary Vaccination of children under 14 received during Calendar Year, 1930. | No. of Declarations of Conscientious Objection actually received by Vaccination Officer during the Calendar Year 1930. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Smallpox. | Certificates of conscientious objection received. | Dead, Unvaccinated. | Postponement by Medical Certificate | Removal to Districts, V.O. of which apprised. | Removal to places unknown and cases not found. | |||||
| North East | 950 | 128 | Nil | Nil | 610 | 32 | 28 | 9 | 22 | 121 | 620 | 572 |
| South West | 539 | 81 | Nil | Nil | 318 | 9 | 21 | 3 | 20 | 87 | 528 | 279 |
| TOTAL | 1,489 | 209 | Nil | Nil | 928 | 41 | 49 | 12 | 42 | 208 | 1,148 | 851 |