Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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under medical authority, 273 were removed to other districts or places unknown, thus leaving 687 unaccounted for. The return of certificates of exemption, therefore, represents 35 6 per cent. of the registered births.
Years. | Vaccination per 100 births, less infants who died unvaccinated. | Years. | Vaccination per 100 births, less infants who died unvaccinated. |
---|---|---|---|
1908 | 72.4 | 1916 | 4.5 |
1909 | 70.7 | 1917 | 46.7 |
1910 | 66.7 | 1918 | 46.4 |
1911 | 62.3 | 1919 | 46.0 |
1912 | 54.1 | 1920 | 49.3 |
1913 | 51.1 | 1921 | 44.9 |
1914 | 46.8 | 1922 | 46.3 |
1915 | 49.0 |
1906 | 123 | 1912 | 1,646 | 1917 | 1.341 |
1907 | 259 | 1913 | 1,942 | 1918 | 1,027 |
1908 | 588 | 1914 | 2,124 | 1919 | 1.583 |
1909 | 824 | 1915 | 1,710 | 1920 | 2.S66 |
1910 | 1,080 | 1916 | 1,796 | 1921 | 2,5 6 |
1911 | 1,241 | 1922 | 2,347 |
Return furnished by the Vaccination Officers respecting the Vaccination of Children in the. Sub Registration Districts during the previous year 1922.
Registration Sub-Districts. | Number of Births registered in 1922. | 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 Successful Primary Vaccination at All Ages received during year 1923. | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1923. | |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||
Tufnell | 589 | 273 | 1 | - | 176 | 44 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 55 | 2,137 | 138 | |
Up. Holloway | 676 | 327 | 2 | — | 221 | 34 | - | 19 | 20 | 53 | 169 | ||
Tollington | 609 | 249 | 2 | — | 214 | 14 | - | 15 | 13 | 102 | 145 | ||
Highbury | 1002 | 435 | 5 | - | 374 | 38 | - | 2 | - | 112 | 29 1 | ||
Lr. Holloway | 925 | 385 | 3 | - | 307 | 49 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 147 | 2,584 | 228 | |
Barnsbury | 1255 | 617 | - | - | 422 | 66 | 8 | 4 | - | 93 | 334 | ||
Islington, S.E. | 1543 | 616 | 4 | — | 636 | 93 | 22 | 11 | 39 | 125 | 500 | ||
The Borough. | 6599 | 2902 | 17 | - | 2,347 | 338 | 35 | 78 | 195 | 63.7 | 4,721 | 1,804 |
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms.—2,042 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with 2,694
in 1922. For this purpose formaldehyde, either in a gaseous form or in solution, was
employed, although it was sometimes augmented by sulphur dioxide, when it was