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Islington 1925

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

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Table: Return furnished by theVaccination Officers respecting theVaccination ofChildrenin theSub-Registration Districtsduring the previous year 1924.

Return furnished by theVaccination Officers respecting theVaccination ofChildrenin theSub-Registration Districtsduring the previous year 1924.

Registration Sub-Districts.Number of Births registered in 1924Successfully 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 1925.Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection received during year 1925.
123456789101112
Tufnell51429041482551118131,654790
Up. Holloway5523142—15432—211613
Tollington5052582—141196141253
Highbury8804193—30034694663
Lr. Hollowav795386—2065653291101,8331136
Barnsbury1101654130351363251
Islington, S.E.13155943—5034816124495
The Borough5662291515—175526541761973983,4871,926

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DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms.— 3,707 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with
8,497 in 1924. For this purpose formaldehyde 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.

Table: Rooms Disinfected.

Rooms Disinfected.

19251924
1st Quarter915803
2nd „922825
3rd „995881
4th „935988
The Year3,7673,497

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The above figures also include the disinfection of houses and rooms after
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, vide p. 33.
Work at the Disinfecting Station.— 35,076 large articles of bedding,
etc., as detailed below, were disinfected by the steam disinfectors, at the Council's
Disinfecting Station, compared with 32,129 similar articles disinfected during the
previous year.
In addition to the above articles, 29,644 second-hand garments and bed
blankets were disinfected for clothing contractors trading in the borough, who paid
the Council for the work, amounting to the sum of £103 13s. 6d.
Altogether, 64,720 articles described in the two paragraphs preceding were
disinfected, which bring the number of large articles disinfected since the disinfecting
station was established to 2,090,792.