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VACCINATION.
Total number of successful Vaccination Certificates
received during the year was 184.
Total number of Exemptions, 232.
Only about 45 per cent. of children under ten years of age
have been vaccinated. Dr. Reece, in the Medical Report of the
Local Government Board, 1918-19, writes: "The unprotected
state of the child population of this county against
attack and death by Smallpox should be fully known and
understood, and the possibility of extensive spread of the
disease among children unprotected by vaccination, and the
heavy mortality which is known to occur at such ages, should
should be realized."
The fact that the Vaccination Acts are administered by
the Poor Law Guardians is responsible for a large proportion
of exemptions. Apart from this, Vaccination is essentially
preventive medicine, and should be carried out by the sanitary
authority. This, no doubt, will come about eventually, but in
the meantime I am sure a much larger proportion of babies
would be vaccinated if the Ministry made the Vaccination
Grant to Medical Officers of Infant Welfare Centres, so that
vaccination could be done gratuitously at the Centres.
WATER SUPPLY.
The principal Water Supply for the District is that of the
South West Suburban Water Company, whose reservoirs are
at Egham. A considerable number of houses at North Hyde
and on the Adelaide Estate are supplied from the mains of the
Metropolitan Water Board. There are only a few isolated
houses in the District which obtain water from wells. The
South West Suburban Company have a water tower on their
premises at Southall, with a capacity of about 300,000 gallons,
in order to ensure a constant supply.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
Method in use in the District:— Water Carriage System.
The rainfall is conveyed by separate sewers to the natural
watercourses. Practically all the houses in the District are
drained into the public sewers, except a group of cottages and