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Wandsworth 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Vaccination.
Table XXIX. is taken from the official returns of the Vaccination
Officers to the Board of Guardians for the year 1904. It shows the
number of children successfully vaccinated for the whole Borough,
as well as for the separate sub-districts. Streatham, Balham and
Tooting are included under the heading of Streatham.
| Sub-Districts. | Number of Births returned from 1st January to 31st of December, 1904. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Small pox. | Dead, Unvaccinated. | Certificates of Conscien tious objection. | Postponed by Medical Certificate. | Removed to District, Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised. | Removed to places un- known, or which cannot be traced; and cases not having been found. | Remaining on Books as Unvaccinated. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham | 1,491 | 939 | 5 | ... | 116 | 20 | 35 | 40 | 311 | |
| Putney | 568 | 474 | ... | 57 | 1 | 3 | 18 | ... | ||
| Streatham | 1,776 | ... | 238 | 193 | ||||||
| Wandsw'th | 4 | ... | 9 | |||||||
| ... | 602 | 223 | 101 | 380 |
During the year 1904, of 6,990 children whose births were
registered, 5,146 or 73.5 percent. were successfully vaccinated, compared
with 73.7 percent. in 1903, 72.4 per cent. in 1902, and 71.4
percent. in 1901. The increase which commenced in the year 1900
was not continued, as 1904 shows a slight decrease in the percentage
of children successfully vaccinated compared with 1903.
The next Table shows the percentage of children vaccinated to
total births registered in the Borough, and for the vaccination subdistricts
for the year 1904, as well as for the ten years preceding. The
average for the years 1894-1903 is also given.
The increase in the Borough of the percentage of successful
vaccinations compared with the preceding ten years was 3.6. In