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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
During the year 1905, of 6,893 children whose births were
registered, 5,145 or 74.6 per cent. were successfully vaccinated,
compared with 73.5 per cent. in 1904, 73.7 per cent. in 1903, and
72.4 per cent. in 1902. This is the highest percentage that has
been recorded since 1894, when it was 75.8.
The next Table shows the percentage of children vaccinated
to total births registered in the Borough and for the vaccination
sub-district for the year 1905, as well as for the 10 years preceding;
the average for the 10 years is also shown.
The increase in the Borough of successfully vaccinated, compared
with the decennial average is 4.9.
In Clapham the increase was 7.7, in Putney 14.6, in Streatham
4.4, and in Wandsworth 3.0.
Compared with 1904 there has been a very decided improvement
in the number of cases of successful vaccinations in Clapham,
but, as was the case in that year also, the number of children
remaining on the books as unvaccinated was highest in
Clapham, being 170, compared with none in Putney, 18 in Streatham,
and 25 in Wandsworth.
Putney shows an improvement compared with 1904, as also
does Wandsworth and Streatham, but in the latter sub-district
the improvement is only .5 per cent.
In the Local Government Board's returns for the year 1903,
of the children whose births were registered in England and
Wales, 75.3 per cent. are recorded as successfully vaccinated, 9.7
per cent. as having died unvaccinated, while 10.7 per cent. were
not finally accounted for as regards vaccination at the time the
returns were made.
In London the cases not finally accounted for amounted to
20.7 per cent., compared with 21.3 per cent. in the previous year.
This high percentage is due largely to default in several Unions
in the East End.
580 infants died unvaccinated, a percentage of 8 4, compared
with 8.6 in 1904, and 8.3 in 1903.