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*The total in this column should be the number of Certificates of successful primary vaccination
of children under 14, actually received during the year, including any relating to births
registered in previous years. The total thus given should include the Certificates of
successful primary vaccination of which copies have been sent to the Vaccination Officers
of other Districts. The total number of Certificates for the year 1935 sent to other
Vaccination Officers should be stated here:—110.
*Includes the Burrage and Herbert Wards in Plumstead Parish.
(Signature) S. G. TAYLOR,
Date—10th February, 1936. Vaccination Officer.
During the year ended 30th September, 1935, the number of persons successfully
vaccinated or re-vaccinated at the cost of the rates was 2,061. This figure includes
704 primary vaccinations of persons under one year of age; 403 over one year of
age, and 954 re-vaccinations.
xiv. Adoptive Acts, By-Laws and Regulations Relating to Public Health
in Force in the District.
Adoptive Acts.—The Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899-1923, have been
adopted by the Council. During the year, the Borough Treasurer tells me, the
Council made 410 advances to purchasers of houses in accordance with the provisions
of these Acts.
Transfer of Powers Order, 1933.—This Order came into operation on the 1st
April, 1933, and transferred certain duties to the Borough Council from the London
County Council in respect of (a) Building Lines; (b) Disused Burial Grounds; (c)
Seamen's Lodging Houses; (d) Thames and other Embankments; (e) Common
Lodging Houses; (f) Cowhouses and Places for the Keeping of Cows; (g) Infant
Life Protection; (h) Offensive Trades; (i) Slaughterhouses and Knackers' Yards.
By-Laws and Regulations.—A complete list of the various By-laws and
Regulations in force in the Borough was given in the Annual Report for 1934. One
additional one, dealing with the fouling of public footways by dogs came into force
during the year.
xv. School Medical Service (London County Council).
Through the courtesy of Sir Frederick Menzies, the School Medical Officer, I
am able to give the following particulars of the routine medical examination of
elementary school children in Woolwich in 1935:—