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Poplar 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Extract from the Report of the Vaccination Officer, respecting tho Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered from 1 st January to 31st December, 1937, inclusive: —
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births registered 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1937. | Number of Births entered by 31st January, 1939, in "Vaccination Register." | Number of Births which on 31st January, 1939, remained unentered in "Vaccination Register." | Number of Births neither entered in the "Vaccination Register" nor accounted for in Columns 8, 9 and 10. | Total number of Certificates of Successful Primary Vaccination of Children under 14 received during the calendar year 1938. | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection actually received during the calendar year 1938. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col. 1 Successfully vaccinated . | Col. II | Col. IV Number in respect of whom Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection have been received. | Col. V Died unvac-cinated. | |||||||||
| Postponement by Medical Certificate. | Removals to Districts the Vaccination Officers of which have been duly apprised. | Removals to places unknown, cases not found, etc. | ||||||||||
| Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Smallpox. | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) |
| Bow and Bromley | 1246 | 129 | — | — | 823 | 55 | — | 28 | 36 | 175 | 336 | 1115 |
| Poplar | 408 | 62 | — | — | 276 | 22 | — | 1 | 11 | 40 | ||
| Total | 1654 | 181 | — | — | 1099 | 77 | — | 29 | 47 | 221 | 336 | 1115 |
Note.—(a) The total of the figures in Columns 3 to 11 should agree with the figure in Column 2.—The number of children successfully vaccinated after the
declaration of conscientious objection had been made was—Nil.
(b) Ihe figures in Columns 2 to 11 should not include re-registered births.
The total number of copies of certificates for the year 1937 sent to other Vaccination Officers was 103,
M. 379.