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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
decrease having been greatest in Clapham and least in Putney,
while in the whole Borough there has been a decrease of 4.5
per cent.
Compared with the decennial average there has been a considerable
increase in Putney, but a decrease in all the other subdistricts.
466 infants died unvaccinated, a percentage of 6'6, compared
with 8.1 in 1906, 8.4 in 1905, and 8.6 in 1904.
Of the 1,904 infants remaining, 27 or .38 per cent. were stated
to have been insusceptible to vaccination; 292 or 4.1 per cent. in
respect of whom certificates of conscientious objection were
received; 317 or 4.4 per cent. had vaccination postponed by
medical certificate, leaving 952 or 13.4 per cent. as removed, not to
be traced, or otherwise unaccounted for; while 316 or 4.4 per cent.
remained on the books as unvaccinated, compared with 10.1 per
cent. as removed, etc., in 1906, and 7.7 in 1905; and 3.1 remaining
as unvaccinated in 1906, and 3.1 in 1905.
There has been an increase of 3.3 in the percentage of cases
removed, and this increase chiefly occurred in the sub-districts of
Streatham and Wandsworth.
If the total number of infants who died unvaccinated be
deducted from the total number of births registered, then of 6,613,
the remaining infants, 71.2 per cent. were successfully vaccinated,
compared with 78.1 in 1906, 81.5 in 1905, and 80.5 in 1904; .41
were insusceptible, compared with .23, .3 and .48; 4.8 per cent.
were under certificate of postponement, compared with 5.1, 4.2
and 3.4; 4.4 per cent. in regard to whom certificates of conscientious
objection had been obtained, compared with 2.8, 2.2 and 2.1;
leaving 19.1 per cent. unaccounted for as regards vaccination,
compared with 14.5, 11.8 and 13.1.