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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
with 4.8, 5.1, 4.2 and 3.4; 8.6 per cent. in regard to whom certificates
of conscientious objection had been obtained, compared with4.4,
2.8, 2.2 and 2.1; leaving 19.7 per cent. unaccounted for as
regards vaccination, compared with 19.1, 14.5, 11.8 and 13.1.

The returns for the year 1908 again show a large falling off
as regards successful vaccination, and with the exception of the
sub-district of Putney, and to a less extent in Wandsworth, the
record of the number of unvaccinated children in the Borough is
by no means a satisfactory one.
Fortunately during the year Small-pox has been almost
absent from London, but if the number of unprotected increases as
rapidly as it has been doing during the last three years, imported
cases, which will in the course of time be introduced, will have a
greater number of unprotected to infect, resulting in serious
loss to the community both financially and otherwise.
The percentage of children not finally accounted for, including
cases postponed, to total births during the last 10 years wasas
follows for this Borough, for the Metropolis and for the rest
of England.