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Shoreditch 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Return showing the number of persons successfully vaccinated and re-vaccinated at the cost of the Rates by the Medical Officers of the Poor Law Institutions and the Public Vaccinators during the year ended 30th September, 1931 : —
Shoreditch Borough Council.
| Name of Poor Law Institution or Vaccination District. | Name of Medical Officer or Public Vaccinator. | Numbers of successful primary vaccinations of persons. | Number of successful re-vaccinations, i.e., successful vaccinations of persons who had been successfully vaccinated at some previous time. | Observations. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under one year of age. | One year and upwards. | Total. | ||||
| St. Leonard's Hospital. | Dr. T. Kelleher | 1 | 13 | 14 | 17 | — |
| Holborn & Fins-bury Institution | Dr. R. T. Taylor | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | — |
| Shoreditch South-West District. | Dr. N. H. Club- wa'la | 229 | 240 | 469 | 44 | — |
| Shoreditch North-East District. | Dr. L. M. Lad ell Dr. L. Statni-grosch | ) 199 | 233 | 432 | 10 | — |
| 432 | 489 | 921 | 71 | |||
The Ministry of Health Report No. G2 to which reference has been
made under the heading of Smallpox, contains a full discussion of the
advantages and disadvantages of the Vaccination Acts in their present form.
The Report, while reaffirming the value of vaccination as a preventive
measure against smallpox, raises the question of the desirability of the
rigidity of the existing machinery.
The Report should be read by all who are interested in this subject, and
especially by members of Public Health Authorities that have since the
passing of the Local Government Act been responsible for the local administration
of the Vaccination Acts.
It is suggested in this Report that Authorities now responsible should
observe the working of these Acts with a view to formulating proposals
designed to facilitate the general acceptance of vaccination both in infancy
and in after life.
While dealing with the question of vaccination, it may not be out of
place to refer to the fact that the Vaccination Order 1929 contained an
instruction to public vaccinators that they should in all ordinary cases
vaccinate in one insertion preferably by a single linear incision or scratch.
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