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Islington 1913

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

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[1913

Table: Table CII.Showing the result of theBacteriological Examinationsmade for theDiagnosisofDiphtheria, Enteric FeverandPhthisis, 1898-1913.

Table CII.

Showing the result of theBacteriological Examinationsmade for theDiagnosisofDiphtheria, Enteric FeverandPhthisis, 1898-1913.

Periods.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever..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
19101252764013229'6163157220682
191115732748419335266186252788
1912137298435232750119341460945
19131634185812428521835467291362
Totals (for 15½ years)1231247737084675831050996227432708028

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VACCINATION, OR THE STATE OF PREPAREDNESS OF THE
BOROUGH TO MEET SMALL POX.
At no time since 1880 has the percentage of vaccinated children been so
low as in 1912, which is the latest year for which full returns are available,
and they show that only 54.1 per cent. of the children born during the year
(less infants who had died before vaccination was performed) were
vaccinated. This is much to be regretted, because the present generation are
laying up a store of sorrow for themselves and affliction—probably disfigurement,
death, or even what is worse than both, blindness—for their innocent