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St Pancras 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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In the last Annual Report it was pointed out that of the serums inoculated
for preventive purposes, as distinguished from curative treatment, some were
fleeting, protecting only for weeks, as diphtheria antitoxin ; some were less
temporary, protecting the individual for months, as antitetanus serum ; and
that one was more permanent, affording protection for 10 or more years, as,
vaccine lymph. But there is also another difference between these protective
fluids in that the above-mentioned sera are organic products extracted from
the blood and free from microbes, and that they act chemically, whereas
vaccine lymph contains the presumptive microorganism of small-pox, passed
through the calf and thus deprived of the power of transmitting infection
aerially. A person inoculated with diphtheria or tetanus antitoxin does not
acquire either of those diseases, but a person inoculated with vaccine lymph
acquires a non-infectious form of small-pox in an extremely mild degree,
known as vaccinia.

Table: In order to obtain some idea of the condition of vaccination of the population in St. Pancrns, I had extracted from my annual reports the figures kindly supplied by the Vaccination Officers, and they are set cut in the table below:—

In order to obtain some idea of the condition of vaccination of the population in St. Pancrns, I had extracted from my annual reports the figures kindly supplied by the Vaccination Officers, and they are set cut in the table below:—

Number of Births.Number Successfully Vaccinated.Dead Un-vaccin-ated.Unaccounted for.
Half yearlyAnnually.
1891—January to June374627273107091319
July to Deecember34642532322610
L892—Januury to June364026352917141387
July to December36442576295673
1893—January to June360325752967321340
July to December34362550278608
1894—January to June351026072536501352
July to December35042554248702
1895—January to June353425452637261500
July to December36162567275774
L896—January to June342224442697091499
July to December35102428292790
_ w L897—January to June350725752676651401
July to December35292505288736
L898—January to June3491184827613672847
July to December336914903991480
L899—January to June3468147238216142901
July to December314314903661287
1900—January to June3335180832412032370
July to December313916413311167
Total 10 years695104556960251791617916

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It shows in ten years an accumulation of nearly 18,000 children unaccounted
ior as to vaccination.