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Islington 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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Return furnished by the Vaccination Officers respecting the Vaccination of
Children in the Sub-Registration Districts during the previous year 1936.
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births returned in "Birth List Sheets" in 1936. | 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 1937. | Number of Statutory-Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1937. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||
| Tufnell | 1250 | 470 | - | 308 | 86 | 11 | 89 | 5 | |||||
| Upper Holloway | 289 | - | 233 | 10 | 3 | 110 | 16 | 1 | 1,361 | 872 | |||
| Tollington | 189 | 82 | 1 | - | 71 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 4 | |||
| Highbury | 260 | 2 | - | 239 | 13 | 4 | 62 | 34 | 7 | ||||
| l.ower Holloway | 160 | 87 | - | - | 44 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Barnsbury | 330 | - | 127 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 982 | 488 | |||
| Islington, S.E | 470 | 240 | 1 | - | 151 | 22 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 15 | |||
| The Borough | 3884 | 1758 | 7 | - | 1173 | 101 | 53 | 487 | 197 | 48 | 2343 | 1360 | |
Return showing the numbers of persons successfully vaccinated and re-vaccinated at the cost of the rates by the Public Vaccinators during the year ended 30th September, 1937 :—
| Name of the Vaccination District (or Institution). | Name of the Medical Officer or Public Vaccinator. | Number of successful primary vaccinations of persons. | Number of successful re-vaccinations, i.e., successful vaccinations of persons who had been successfully vaccinated at some previous time. | Remarks. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under one year. | One year and upwards. | Total. | ||||
| Tufnell | Dr. D. W. Latham | 236 | 10 | 246 | ||
| Upper Holloway | Dr. P'. Inwald | 161 | 15 | 176 | 4 | |
| Tollington | Dr. M. J. Healy | 152 | 14 | 166 | 5 | |
| Highbury | Dr. T. Galbraith | 205 | 213 | 14 | ||
| Lower Holloway (W.) | Dr. S. N. Forbes | 128 | 1 | 129 | 5 | |
| Lower Holloway (E.) | Dr. C. V. Spark | 74 | 5 | 79 | 7 | |
| Mildmay | Dr. J. E. Ambrose | 176 | 23 | 199 | 5 | |
| Barnsbury | Dr. B. Kessel | 77 | 15 | 92 | 5 | |
| Thornhill | Dr. H. D. Christie | 112 | 118 | 4 | ||
| St. Mary | Dr. G. Madden | 47 | 4 | 51 | 4 | |
| St. Mary, Islington, | ||||||
| Hospital | Dr. W. R. Turtle | 73 | - | 73 | - | |
| Total | 1,441 | 101 | 1,542 | 59 | ||
Vaccinations and re-vaccinations performed by the Public Vaccinators of the
Council during the year 1937 :—
Successful vaccinations performed at the surgery or elsewhere
than at the homes of the persons vaccinated 149
Successful re-vaccinations performed at surgery or elsewhere
than at the homes of the persons vaccinated 62
Successful vaccinations or re-vaccinations performed at the
homes of the persons vaccinated or re-vaccinated 1,355
The Vaccination Officers in the course of their duties forwarded the names of
1,489 children to the Public Vaccinators on Form " H." Another 382 children were
vaccinated at the " request " of parents or guardians before Form " H " was
issued.
1937