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One more case of smallpox occurred during the year, in the month of August. This case was
removed to the South Mimms Private Smallpox Hospital. The person attacked was a traveller, who
arrived in Islington from Bilbao a few days before being taken ill, having probably there contracted
the disease.
Thus, so far as could be ascertained, 34 cases of smallpox occurred in London in 1906.
During the year the services of Dr. Wanklyn, of the Council's Public Health Department, were
requisitioned to assist in the diagnosis of 35 cases of suspected smallpox.
These included one group of four patients and one group of three patients, all suffering from
smallpox; one group of five suffering from chickenpox, and another group of five suffering from scabies
and impetigo.
Of the eleven smallpox cases, one group of five cases was due to a case which had been unrecognised
for several weeks, and another group of five was due to another group which had similarly remained
unrecognised.
There were 27 cases of smallpox admitted to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board;
of these 9 were vaccinated, 16 were unvaccinated, and 2 were included in the "doubtful" class. There
were no deaths in the hospitals from the disease during the year.

The percentage of children born who were exempted by "conscientious objection" certificates
since and including 1898 has been as follows:—1898, 1.4; 1899, 1.0; 1900, 1.0; 1901, 1.1; 1902,
0.8; 1903, 1.0; 1904, 1 1.
During these years, the proportion of children exempted by certificate of conscientious objection,
together with the proportion of children not finally accounted for in the several Unions, has been as
follows:—

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