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* Including 46 who had been only recently vaccinated through house-to-house visitation.
At the last school in the list, the examination was not made until the 9th January, 1902, as
the Managers of the School at first refused to allow this to be done.
The percentage of children found to be unvaccinated was 21.4.
Of the 568 children found unvaccinated, 398 have been successfully vaccinated.
155 reside in other parishes, and notices were posted to the Vaccination Officer of the District
in which they resided.
4 have died.
8 have gone away.
2 have been postponed by Medical Certificate.
1 is insusceptible.
In the Holborn Sub-Division of the Holborn Union much vaccination and re-vaccination was
also carried out. House-to-house visitation, in proximity to the cases of Small-pox notified, was made
by the Vaccination Officer. From August, 1901, to the end of March, 1902, the number of
vaccinations by the Public Vaccinator, Dr. Gabe, was as follows:—
Primary Vaccinations 2,166
Re-Vaccinations 5,263
Total 7 429
In addition to these, many large firms have had their employees vaccinated at private expense,
and many of the residents have been vaccinated or re-vaccinated by their own doctors during the
present outbreak, so that a large proportion of the population is fully protected against Small-pox, and
thus prevents spread of the disease.
The Vaccination Officer of this Division of the Borough also informs me that, as a result of
the examination of the arms of children at the Board and Voluntary Schools, about one-third refused
examination; about one-third were vaccinated; about one-third were not vaccinated. He found
that most of the children who were not examined had been vaccinated, the parents objecting to the
examination on the ground of a false idea of re-vaccination being made compulsory. As a result of
this examination fully 1,000 children were primarily vaccinated and more than 1,000 were
re-vaccinated.
RE-VACCINATION OF THE COUNCIL'S EMPLOYEES.
At the beginning of the outbreak I was again re-vaccinated, and advised the staff of the
Public Health Department to be re-vaccinated, pointing out that cases of small-pox had occurred
amongst the Sanitary Inspectors and Disinfecting Staff of other boroughs. All the Sanitary Inspectors
were re-vaccinated (except the one who had been successfully re-vaccinated 18 months previously) also
the two Clerks of this department, and all have escaped small-pox.