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Table 4 provides for the deaths during the year from various
causes, classified according to ages and localities.
Table 5 is a return prepared by Mr. Garstang, the Vaccination
Officer of the Holborn Union, setting forth the number of cases
of successful vaccination as far as relates to children whose births
were registered during the year ending June 30th, 1900. The
figures show that those not yet found in consequence of removals,
&c., number 117 out of a total of 1,844, being 11.7 percent., a
deficiency considerably less than in the preceding year. It will also
be seen from this return that in four cases only was exemption
claimed under Sec. 2, known as the Conscientious Objection
Clause of the Vaccination Act.
Sickness and Deaths due to the Principal Zymotic or
Communicable Diseases.
Small-pox.—For the sixth successive year I am in a position
to report that no death from this cause has occurred to any
parishioner of St. Luke, nor has any case of sickness from the
disease been notified. The Metropolis furnished 4 deaths from
Small-pox against 3 for 1899 and 1 for the year 1898.
82 cases of Small-pox were admitted into the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals during the year.
Scarlet Fever was the registered cause of deaths in London
in 361 instances, being the smallest number recorded from this
disease since 1891, and being at the rate of 0'08 per 1,000 of the
population living as compared with 0'20, the average rate in the
10 years immediately preceding; of these 361 deaths, 305 or
nearly 84 per cent, occurred in public institutions.
Belonging to our own district, 2 deaths were certified, both of
which took place in the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.
This is a more favourable return than for the year 1899, when
the deaths numbered 7. The returns of sickness from the same
cause were also less, and have been gradually decreasing during
the past five years, the numbers being 94 for 1900, and 158 for
1899, and 197 for 1898, and 234 for 1897.