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13. Altogether it is obvious that in vaccination we have an
effectual and comparatively cheap means of preventing Smallpox,
whereas Hospital isolation affords an expensive and very
ineffective means of dealing with this disease. In fact, I am
quite of the opinion of the British Medical Journal, that an
effective system of re-vaccination of children before leaving
school would render Small-pox as exceptional as it now is in
Germany, and would make the maintenance of expensive
Hospitals and Ambulance service quite unnecessary; and in
this way a great economy would be effected for London ratepayers.
14. From September 1901 up to August 9th, Woolwich had
21.0 cases of Small-pox per 10,000 population, compared with
20.3 in London County. And Woolwich had 2.8 deaths from
Small-pox per 10,000 compared with 3.3 in London. It must
be remembered that Woolwich has on its borders extraMetropolitan
districts, in one of which at least the case and
death rate were very much higher than in London.