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Islington 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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1929]
or guardians; 39 vaccinations were postponed under medical authority, 365 were
removed to other districts or places unknown, thus leaving 141 unaccounted for.
The return of certificates of exemption, therefore, represents 37 per cent. of the
registered births.
Vaccination per 100
Years. births, less infants who
died unvaccinated.
1921 44.9
1922 46.3
1923 54.8
1924 54.0
1925 50.4
1926 51.5
1927 | 49.9
1928 46.5
| 1921 | 2,506 |
| 1922 | 2,347 |
| 1923 | 1,751 |
| 1924 | 1,755 |
| 1925 | 1,973 |
| 1926 | 1,951 |
| 1927 | 1,896 |
| 1928 | 1,845 |
| 1929 | 1,755 |
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births registered in 1928. | 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 1929. | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Obiection received during year 1929. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| Tufnell | 345 | 173 | 5 | - | 126 | 22 | - | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1,486 | 120 |
| Up. Holloway | 809 | 367 | 2 | — | 247 | 44 | 2 | 79 | 51 | 17 | 246 | |
| Tollington | 358 | 151 | 2 | - | 149 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 114 | |
| Highbury | 796 | 376 | 1 | - | 293 | 26 | 8 | 36 | 32 | 25 | 259 | |
| Lr. Holloway | 618 | 287 | 1 | - | 210 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 31 | 38 | 1,601 | 210 |
| Barnsbury | 845 | 427 | 1 | - | 307 | 38 | 7 | 5 | 45 | 15 | 311 | |
| Islington, S.E. | 973 | 424 | 1 | — | 423 | 38 | 9 | 12 | 35 | 31 | 434 | |
| The Borough | 4744 | 2205 | 13 | - | 1755 | 226 | 39 | 145 | 220 | 141 | 3,087 | 1,693 |
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms.— 4,210 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with
3,644 in 1928. For this purpose formaldehyde in solution was employed, although
it was sometimes augmented by sulphur fumigation, when it was necessary to kill
vermin, for which purpose sulphur has been found effective. For the extermination
of bugs, in addition all the architrave mouldings and skirting boards behind
which they breed are removed, and the walls washed with hot lime.