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any inmates of the house not already subjected to
such protective influence. The last-named procedure
of preventive medicine was energetically pursued; the
public vaccinators, to meet the convenience of the working
classes, attending at their stations of an evening for
the purpose of re-vaccinating any person desirous of
receiving the benefit of that operation. The extent
to which primary vaccination was carried out in the
district is fully shown by the following return, from
which it appears that of 7,052 children registered,
6,045 were successfully vaccinated, and of the remainder
297 only, or a little over 4 per cent., are, in
consequence of having been removed from the district
or not having been found, unaccounted for.