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25. Deaths in Public Institutions. Table 1 shows the
actual number of deaths occurring in Public Institutions in the
Borough, viz., 272, compared with 313, 293, 296, 289, and
276, in the five preceding years. Table 1a shows the Institutions,
inside and outside the Borough, receiving sick and
infirm persons belonging to the Borough, and Table 4a 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. One case of Small-pox was notified; this is the first
case that has occurred since 1905. It was a man living as
deputy in a common lodging house, who was not known to
have been out of Woolwich for several weeks.
He was at once removed to Hospital, and two of the immediate
contacts were vaccinated. Most of the men in the
lodging house, however, refused vaccination on the ground
that they would lose some days work by it. All the contacts
were kept under observation and no further cases occurred.
27. The number of cases of Small-pox notified in London
was 7.
28. The following return, kindly furnished by the
Vaccination Officers, Mr. Greenhill and Mr. Atkins, gives
particulars of the vaccination of children born in Woolwich,
Plumstead, and Eltham Parishes in 1909:—
Births 3,409
Vaccinated 2,410
Insusceptible 8