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25
Medical postponements 25
Removed 53
Not found and unaccounted for 175
29. The following have been the numbers excused on
account of conscientious objections, since 1901, in Woolwich
and Plumstead Parishes: 127, 78, 108, 96, 101, 109, 170 and
257. The lowest number, 78, was in 1902, the year of the
Small Pox epidemic. The increase in the two last years is
doubtless the result of the recent Vaccination Act, which
facilitates the obtaining of exemption certificates.
Measles.
30. There were 10 deaths from Measles, giving a rate of
0.08, compared with 0.10, 0.24, and 0.54 in the three preceding
years. The rate in London County was 031, compared
with 0.38 in 1907.
31. Of the 10 who-died from Measles, all were under 5
years of age; four were males and six females; five were in
Woolwich Parish, two in Plumstead, and three in Eltham.
32. 519 notifications were received from school teachers
compared with 661, 1,240, 465, 825, and 1,453, in the five
preceding years. The mortality per cent. of notifications was
19 compared with 3.8, 2.3, 2.8, 3.8, and 4.8, in the five preceding
years.
33. The following table gives the number of deaths and
death rates from Measles for the past three years, and three
preceding quinquennia, in each parish (as far as known), and
the death rate in London:—