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City of London 1910
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VACCINATION ACT, 1907.
It will be seen that the number of conscientious objectors continue to
increase. This is doubtless due to the Vaccination Act of 1907, which is
a direct encouragement to persons not to protect their children from the risk
attending an attack of small-pox.
MORTALITY.
During the year under review, 768 deaths were registered in the District,
including *629 persons dying in the City, but not belonging thereto. See
Table, p. 20, for details.
Deducting the latter 139 deaths remain, to which must be added 69 persons
who died at City Institutions in outside districts, where they were registered.
The mortality, therefore, from which the City death rate is calculated is 208.
The death rate for 1910 was 12.1 per 1,000 per annum of the population
(the previous year being 16.0), whilst that for the whole of the Metropolis
was 12.7.
Vaccination Statistics in the City of London.
| Year. | Number of Births. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible. | Had Small-pox. | Died before Vaccina-tion. | Vaccination Postponed. | Cases pending or removed at the end of the year. | Conscientious Objections. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | ||
| 1905 | 302 | 63.6 | Nil. | Nil. | 8.9 | 3.6 | 22.5 | 1.3 |
| 1906 | 344 | 62.2 | 2.0 | „ | 7.3 | 5.2 | 22.9 | 1.7 |
| 1907 | 269 | 62.4 | 1.11 | „ | 11.5 | 4.8 | 17.0 | 2.6 |
| 1908 | 281 | 59.8 | .71 | „ | 9.6 | 3.9 | 21.3 | 4.6 |
| 1909 | 248 | 58.4 | .80 | „ | 9.6 | 5.4 | 16.5 | 8.8 |
| Average previous 5 years | 289 | 61.2 | .92 | „ | 9.3 | 4.6 | 20.0 | 3.8 |
| 1910 | 262 | 57.6 | .38 | „ | 9.5 | 3.8 | 15.6 | 12.9 |
In comparing the above with the Registrar-General's Returns, some
discrepancies will be observed, due to the fact that I have not been
furnished with the number of citizens who died in Institutions other than
those with which the City is connected.
The death rate from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was .17
compared with 1.1 in the Metropolis.
The deaths from phthisis correspond to a rate of 1.05 per thousand of the
population.
* These deaths occurred in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and the Union Depôt, Thavies Inn.