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Islington 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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39 [1922

Table: Return furnished by theVaccination Officers respecting theVaccination of Childrenin theSub Registration Districts during the previous year1921.

Return furnished by theVaccination Officers respecting theVaccination of Childrenin theSub Registration Districts during the previous year1921.

Registration Sub.Districts.Number of Births registered in 1921.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 (cols. 3 to 9).Total Number of Certificates of Primary Vaccination at All Ages received during year 1922.Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1922.
123456789101112
Tufnell8693824-30152144265916,44184
Up. Holloway712324——24745—212253237
Tollington6772792—225373132593227
Highbury9964094—360662846101379
J.r. Holloway9383713—28572—3411632,053311
Barnsbury12656191—380872255119454
Islington, S.E.15875772—708979447143688
The Borough.7044296116—2,50645617952627313,6972,480

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DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms. —2,694 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with 4,081
in 1921. 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
necessary to kill vermin, for which purpose it has been found most effective. For the
extermination of bugs, however, all the architrave mouldings and skirting boards
behind which they breed are removed, and the walls washed with hot lime.
The above figures also include the disinfection of houses and rooms after Phthisis,
vide p. 34.

Table: The Cleansing and Spraying of Rooms.—1,474 rooms, as contrasted with 1,653 in 1921, were cleansed and sprayed.

The Cleansing and Spraying of Rooms.—1,474 rooms, as contrasted with 1,653 in 1921, were cleansed and sprayed.

Rooms Disinfected.Rooms Sprayed.
1922.1021.1922.1921.
1st Quarter813858423463
2nd ,,730664404442
3rd ,,589955258390
4th „5621,604389358
The Year2,6944,0811,4741,653