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Out of 8,865 children, 7,328 were successfully vaccinated,
and the remainder were accounted for by
death, insusceptibility to vaccination or postponement on
account of illness; except 582, i.e. 6.6 percent. In the
previous year 7.5 percent, were unaccounted for.
The great prevalence of Small.pox in the Metropolis
during the last year is doubtless ascribable to the accumulation
of this large percentage of unprotected
persons; and to the fact that we have no compulsory
notification of cases, followed by isolation of patients and
quarantine of those who have been exposed to infection,—
which has served hitherto, as in Leicester, to shelter
from infection persons unprotected by vaccination.
Non.Zymotic In Table I. in the Appendix, the number
Diseases. of deaths from the various constitutional and
local diseases are given, and in Table II. these are compared
with the corresponding deaths of the ten previous
years.
Deaths at The deaths of children under 5 years of
different ages. age amounted to 46.4 percent, of the total
deaths, as compared with 49.2 percent, in the previous
year.
At the other extreme of life, i.e. at 60 years of age and
upwards, 21.2 percent, of the total deaths occurred, as
compared with 19.2 percent, in the previous year.
In the following table the number of deaths at various
group.ages is given, and compared with the corresponding
number in the ten preceding years.