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The "Natural Causes" were 63 in 1906, and 86 in 1907.
The "Accidental and Homicidal Causes" were 49, 59, 62, 58,
and 42, in the five preceding years. The deaths from suffocation
or overlying have been 8, 8, 8, 4, and 9, respectively in
the last five years. The "Homicidal Causes" were 8, 11, 11,
15, and 7, in the same years.
25. Deaths in Public Institutions.—Table I. shows the
actual number of deaths occurring in Public Institutions in the
Borough, viz., 289, compared with 272, 261, 313, 293, and
296, in the five preceding years. Table Ia. shows the Institutions,
inside and outside the Borough, receiving sick and
infirm persons belonging to the Borough, and Table IVa. shows
the number of deaths from each disease occurring in Public
Institutions.
Small-pox and Vaccination.
26. No cases of Small-pox have been notified since 1905.
286 cases of Chicken-pox were notified by school-teachers,
compared with 84 in 1906, and 362 in 1907.
27. The number of cases of Small-pox in London was 4.
28. The following return, kindly furnished by the Vaccination
Officers—Mr. Greenhill and Mr. Atkins—gives particulars
as to the vaccination of children born in Woolwich, Plumstead
and Eltham Parishes in 1907:—
Births 3333
Vaccinated 2553
Insusceptible 9
Conscientious objections 257
Died unvaccinated 261