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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The next Table shows the percentage of children vaccinated
to total births registered in the Borough, and in the vaccination
sub-districts for the year 1909, as well as for the 10 years 18991908.
The average for the 10 years is also shown on this Table.
Compared with 1908 there has been a decrease in the percentage
of successfully vaccinated in all the sub-districts with the
exception of Clapham. The greatest decrease occurred in Putney,.
and the smallest in Wandsworth, while in the whole Borough
there has been a decrease of .4 per cent.
Compared with the decennial average there has been a
decrease in all the sub-districts. The greatest decrease having
been in Streatham, and the smallest in Putney.
413 infants died unvaccinated, a percentage of 5.9, compared
with 67 in 1908, 6.6 in 1907, 8.1 in 1906, 8.4 in 1905, and 8.6 in
1904.
Of the 2,313 infants remaining, 28 or .4 per cent, were stated
to have been insusceptible to vaccination ; 753 or 10.8 per cent.
in respect of whom certificates of conscientious objection were
received; 461 or 6.6 per cent. had vaccination postponed by
medical certificate, leaving 932 or 13.3 per cent, as removed, not
to be traced, or otherwise unaccounted for; while 106 or 1.5 per
cent. remained on the books as unvaccinated, compared with 13.6
per cent, as removed, etc., in 1908, 13.4 in 1907, 10.1 in 1906, and
7.7 in 1905; and 1.5 remaining as unvaccinated in 1908, 4.4 in
1907, 3.1 in 1906, and 3.1 in 1905.
There has been a decrease of .3 in the percentages of cases
removed, but an increase of 2.8 in the number of certificates of
conscientious objections received.
If the total number of infants who died unvaccinated be
deducted from the total number of births registered, then of 6,559
the remaining infants, 64.7 per cent. were successfully vaccinated,
compared with 65.7 in 1908, 71.2 in 1907, 78.1 in 1906, 81.5 in
1905, and 80.5 in 1904; .42 were insusceptible, compared with .37,
.41, .23, .3 and .48; 7.0 percent, were under certificate of postponement,
compared with 5.6, 4.8, 5.1, 4.2 and 3.4; 11.5 per cent. in