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notwithstanding the extent to which the public availed
themselves of this, it must be admitted that a large
population was always with us wholly unprotected
from the infection of this disease.
I have kept at the Isolation Hospital, Hog Lane,
a record as to the condition of children as regards
successful vaccination, and I find that notwithstanding
the large amount of vaccination and re-vaccination
which was practised in the early part of the year, no
fewer than 26.3 per cent. of the children admitted to
the Hospital suffering from Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria were unvaccinated. These figures probably
represent approximately the proportion of the child
population still unprotected from Small Pox by means
of vaccination. The value of vaccination where Small
Pox is prevalent can best be judged from the analysis
of cases admitted to the Small Pox Hospital during
the year, and furnished in my Hospital Report.
SCARLET FEVER.
Four hundred and sixty-six cases of Scarlet Fever
were notified during the year, as compared with 533
in 1901. The mean number of cases of this disease
notified during the last ten years is 426, but during