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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
public appears to have got over the excitement which was worked
up by the few enthusiasts to please whom the Act was passed.
Even in some towns where exemption claims have been most
numerous, there has been a marked increase in the number of
children vaccinated. Fortunately, the country has been fairly
free from smallpox, but should an outbreak occur, epidemics may
be widespread, and measures of a stringent character will have to
be resorted to by Sanitary Authorities to enable them to cope
with the disease.
I am indebted to Mr. J. H. Penfold and Mr. W. C. Hasted,
Vaccination Officers respectively of Westminster Union and
Strand Union, for the subjoined details relating to the performance
of Vaccination in those parts of the above Unions
included in the Strand District for the year 1897.
1897.
Births.
Successfully
Vaccinated.
Insusceptible.
Died
Unvaccinated.
Vaccination
Postponed.
Removed and
Address not known.
Remaining.
St. Anne Sub.District 301 252 — 19 — 30 —
Strand Sub.District 270 183 — 34* 2 38 13
Totals ... ... 571 435 — 53 2 68 18
The total number of certificates received from "conscientious
objectors" to the end of 1898, amounted to eight, seven of these
being from the Strand Sub.District and one from St. Anne's.
Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class.
The Registrar.General classifies small.pox, scarlet fever,
measles, diphtheria, whooping.cough, "fever" (typhus, enteric
and continued), and diarrhoea under this heading. The Zymotic
death.rates for London and the Strand District were 2.77 and
1.84 respectively per 1,000 of the population (See Tables IV., V.
and VIII.) Compared with the averages in the ten preceding