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VACCINATION.
The increase of Small Pox during the early part of the year
1881 led me to recommend the Vestry to place themselves in
communication with the Board of Guardians, with a view to a
house-to-house visitation being made without loss of time, and
to arrange for the issue of a memorandum, calling attention to
the dangers of Small Pox, and to the protection offered by
vaccination. This was accordingly done, and Mr G. W. Collins
was appointed, with nine colleagues, to make a house-to-house
visitation throughout the whole Parish, and to urge upon all
persons, by the distribution of appropriate literature and by
personal appeal, to protect themselves and their children against
Small Pox. Street lists, in the order of route, with the names
of householders, were prepared from the rate books, and uniform
books were printed, in which to collect the information for each
house separately. The whole work was accomplished in the
space of twelve weeks, and in this period, 21,885 inhabited
houses were visited, of which about 2,200 were let in tenements,
and the condition as to vaccination of 142,788 persons was
ascertained. It may be useful in the future to know the cost of
these proceedings, and it may, therefore, be stated that the sum
of £866. 9s. was expended in salaries, and a further sum of
£157, 4s. 11d. expended upon printing, upon advertisements,
and upon the purchase of vaccination pamphlets, making
altogether a total of £523. 18s. 11d.