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Islington 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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1938] 86
Return
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births returned in "Birth List Sheets" in 1937. | 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 1938. | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1938. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| Tufnell | 1447 | 521 | 2 | - | 380 | 93 | 4 | 340 | 97 | 10 | 1532 | 878 |
| Upper Holloway | 720 | 285 | 1 | — | 252 | 28 | — | 124 | 26 | 4 | ||
| Tollington | 137 | 66 | — | — | 48 | 9 | — | 1 | 11 | 2 | ||
| Highbury | 010 | 264 | 5 | - | 209 | 24 | 4 | 59 | 43 | 2 | ||
| Barnsbury | 669 | 349 | 1 | - | 225 | 16 | 20 | 26 | 18 | 14 | 1254 | 540 |
| Islington, S.E. | 411 | 215 | — | — | 139 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 9 | ||
| The Borough | 3994 | 1700 | 9 | — | 1253 | 187 | 36 | 560 | 208 | 41 | 2786 | 1418 |
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, 1938:—
| 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 | 196 | 19 | 215 | 8 | |
| Upper Holloway | Dr. P. Inwald | 185 | 10 | 195 | 9 | |
| Tollington | Dr. M. J. Healy | 206 | 20 | 226 | 14 | |
| Highbury | Dr. T Galbraith | 189 | 12 | 201 | 12 | |
| Lower Holloway (W.) | Dr. S. N. Forbes | 104 | - | 104 | 1 | |
| Lower Holloway (E.) | Dr. C. V. Forbes | 89 | 4 | 93 | 7 | |
| Mildmay | Dr. J. E. Ambrose | 141 | 20 | 161 | 6 | |
| Barnsbury | Dr. B. Kessel | 148 | 4 | 152 | 3 | |
| Thornhill | Dr. H. D. Christie | 166 | 2 | 168 | 1 | |
| St. Mary | Dr. G. Madden | 58 | 8 | 66 | 5 | |
| St. Mary, Islington, Hospital | Dr. W. R. Turtle | 6 | — | 6 | — | |
| Total | 1488 | 99 | 1587 | 66 | ||
Vaccinations and re-vaccinations performed by the Public Vaccinators of the
Council during the year 1938:—
Successful vaccinations performed at the surgery or elsewhere
than at the homes of the persons vaccinated 60
Successful re-vaccinations performed at surgery or elsewhere
than at the homes of the persons vaccinated 55
Successful vaccinations or re-vaccinations performed at the
homes of the persons vaccinated or re-vaccinated 1,495