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Islington 1912

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

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Table: T able CI.Showing the result of theBacteriological Examinationsmade for thiDiagnosisofDiphtheria, Enteric FeverandPhthisis, 1898 1912.

T able CI.

Showing the result of theBacteriological Examinationsmade for thiDiagnosisofDiphtheria, Enteric FeverandPhthisis, 1898 1912.

Periods.Diphtheria.Enteric Frver.Phthisis.
Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Positive Results.Negative Results.Total Examined.Totals.
1898 (6 months)112031311748......79
1899475097255176364379252
19004362105334578354479262
190180901706646112284371353
1902527012245691143983122358
19031464781554694096136283
19042858861439534689135274
1905618614734225687131218421
190668991672729565796153376
19078813522325345968121189471
19089318828134255969136205545
19096423630020355560162222577
191012527640132296163157220682
191115732748419335266186252788
1912137298435232750119341460945
Totals (for 14J years) ..106820593127413555998813172825416666

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VACCINATION, OR THE STATE OF PREPAREDNESS OF THE
BOROUGH TO MEET SMALL POX.
To any man who has seen the ravages of Small Pox such as the Medical
Officer of Health has beheld, the vaccination returns of the last seven years have
been melancholy reading, for it will be noticed in the Table immediately following
that the vaccinations have gradually declined from 1888 to the present time.
In the former year they represented 82.3 per cent, of the births, while in the
latter they figure at 62.3 per cent. It is much to be feared that this
diminishing percentage will go on still further decreasing and the possibility