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five preceding years The deaths from suffocation or overlying
have been 8, 8, 4, 9, and 5, respectively in those five
years The "Homicidal Causes" were 11, 11, 15, 7, and 15,
in the same years Accidents and overlying are diminishing,
but not so suicide One death only from overlying in the
year is the smallest number recorded in the past nine years
25 Deaths in Public Institutions Table I shows the
actual number of deaths occurring in Public Institutions in the
Borough, viz—276, compared with 261, 313, 293, 296, and 289
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
Nearly one-third of the total deaths occurred in the
Infirmary or hospitals
Small-Pox and vaccination
26 No cases of Small-pox have been notified in the Borough
since 1905
27 The number of cases of Small-pox notified in London
was 21
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 1908:—
Births 3137
Vaccinated 2164
Insusceptible 10
Conscientious objections 535
Died unvaccinated 205