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vaccination (including cases postponed) in the Metropolitan
Unions was only 5-7 per cent, of the total births. In
189i this proportion had risen to 16*4 per cent., and is still
rising. In the St. Olave Union the corresponding rates were
4' 1 and 15*3 per cent., and in 1893 had risen to 16*8
per cent.
As further evidence of the value of vaccination I have
made an analysis of the 676 cases of small-pox that were
removed to the Hospital Ships of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board during the six months ending December 29th, 1895.
Of these 676 there were—
113 under 10 years of age,
and 68 10 years and under 15 years.
Of the 113 under 10 years of age
104 were not vaccinated,
7 were vaccinated,
2 no history in regard to vaccination;
and of the 68 between the ages 10 and under 15
36 were not vaccinated,
31 were vaccinated,
1 no history in regard to vaccination.
(Those cases that were unvaccinated at the time when
the disease was contracted, but were vaccinated after this,
during what is called the incubative period, I have, of course,
considered as not vaccinated.)
The number of vaccinated children is much greater than
the number of the unvaccinated.
Ten years ago the proportion of unvaccinated children
was less than 8 per cent, of the total births.