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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Paddington 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Borough of ]

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the percentage increased irregularly to 17.7 in 1891.
Since the latter date the proportion remaining unvaccinated
has diminished, and was 8*8 in 1895, the last
year for which complete returns are available.

Table: TABLE 6. Vaccination Returns 1881-1895.

TABLE 6. Vaccination Returns 1881-1895.

Year.Births.Successfully vaccinate^.Insusceptible of vaccination.Had Small-pox.Died un vaccina ted.Vaccinati-n postpontd.Remaining (n< t traced, &c., &c.)*Children not accounted for (including postponed cases) % of births.
18812,8452,4158...20372127.7
18822,8972,4118...212172499.2
18832,8732,3817...231162388.8
18842,9o52,46013...239432008.2
18853,0192,48912...252382288.8
18862,9232,4097...2132626810.1
18872,9152,44011...220402048.4
18882,8552,29322...2163828611.3
18892,8702,2757...2236829712.7
18912,8452,2557...2542930011.6
18912,9682,17216...2543249417.7
18922,9572,3747...2021635812.6
18933,0152,42127...2651029210.0
18942,8532,36924...203212368.2
18952,9862,37824...302212618.8
Januaiy to June, 1*961,5121,20716...134201157.6

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* Gone away, false addresses, " unaccounted for."
ROYAL COMMISSION ON VACCINATION.
The Final Report of the Commission was published
in August, 1896, but at the time of writing, the
concluding Volume of Minutes of Evidence and the
Appendices to the Report had not been issued.
The Commission commenced its work in May,
1887, and was engaged for a trifle over nine years in
discussing the question of the utility of vaccination.
By what may be termed the irony of fate, the English