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Wandsworth 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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I here append a table, showing, as I have before done, the exact number of deaths due to the seven principal epidemics occurring in the past and ten preceding years.
| Years. | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1802 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | |||||||||||
| 9 | |||||||||||
| 14 | |||||||||||
| 0 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||
| 25 | |||||||||||
| 26 | |||||||||||
| 28† | |||||||||||
| 109 |
Small-pox and Vaccination.—The new Vaccination Act
which came into operation on the 1st January, 1868, has,
I think, been productive of considerable good in this Subdistrict.
There were born in the past year, as before
stated, 801 children.
The number of children and others vaccinated by
myself in 1868 in my capacity of Public Vaccinator, was
360. Of this number I should state that 3 were re-vaccinations
of persons exposed at the time to the contagion
of Small-pox, and that 33 were first vaccinations of
persons above the age at which the vaccine is appointed
to be introduced, viz., between 2 and 34 years, the adults
seeking the protection, as I believe, as much through fear
of the penal clauses of the Vaccination Act as of Small-pox
itself. Taking into consideration the number of children
* The 17 deaths recorded in 1866, comprehend the 4 death8 from Cholera that took
place during that year.
† The 28 deaths in 1868, under Diarrhœa, includes one death from Cholera.