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East Ham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Table 21.—VACCINATION. Statistics relating to the Vaccination of Children whose births were registered from 1st January to 31st December, 1946, are appended below :— 52a
| Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District. | Number of Births returned in the "Birth List Sheets" as registered from 1st January to 31st December, 1946 | Number of these births duly entered by 31st January, 1948, in Columns I, II, IV and V of the "Vaccination Register" (Birth List Sheets), viz. : | Number of these Births which on 31st January, 1948, remained unentered in the "Vaccination Register" on account (as shown by "Report Book") of | Number of these Births remaining on 31st January, 1948, neither duly entered in the "Vaccination Register" (columns 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this Return) nor temporarily accounted for in the "Report Book" (columns 8, 9 and 10 of this Return) | Total number of Certificates and copies of Certificates of Successful Primary Vaccination of Children under 14 received during the Calendar Year 1947 | Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection actually received by the Vaccination Officer irrespective of the dates of birth of the children to which they relate, during the Calendar Year 1947 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col. I Successfully Vaccinated | Col. II | Col. IV Number in respect of whom Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection have been received | Col. V Died unvac-einated | Postponement by Medical Certificate | Removal to Districts the Vaccination Officers of which have been duly apprised | Removal to places unknown, or which cannot be reached ; and Cases not having been found | ||||||
| Insusceptible of Vaccination | Had Small Pox | |||||||||||
| North East Ham | 1,007 | |||||||||||
| Less 1 re -regn., 1924 | — | |||||||||||
| Less 1 re-regn., 1926 | — | |||||||||||
| Less 2 re-regn., 1945 | — | |||||||||||
| Less 1 re-regn., 1946 | — | |||||||||||
| Less 1 entry not complete | 6 | |||||||||||
| 1,001 | 474 | 1 | — | 382 | 28 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 73 | 744 | 517 | |
| South East Ham | 555 | |||||||||||
| Less 1 re-regn., 1923 | — | |||||||||||
| Less 1 re-regn., 1925 | —_ | |||||||||||
| Less 1 re-regn., 1933 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 552 | 213 | 1 | — | 246 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 52 | 708 | 418 | |
| Total | 1,553 | 687 | 2 | — | 628 | 45 | 7 | 18 | 41 | 125 | 1,452 | 935 |
Number of children successfully vaccinated after declaration of conscientious objection 2
Copies of certificates of successful primary vaccination sent to Vaccination Officers in other areas in 1047 614