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Bow—1880 7
1881 3
1882 0
1883 0
1884 8
1885 1
1886 0
1887 0
1888 0
1889 0
1890 0
1891 0
1892 0
1893 1
1894 4
1895 0
1896 0
The Vaccination Officer of the Poplar Union has furnished me
with the following statement of the vaccination returns in Bow for
1896. Total births, 1364; vaccinations, 648; insusceptible, 4;
dead, 151.
During the last 15 years there has never been a period in which
the deaths from the most fatal of all the zymotic diseases, measles,
were so many as in 1896. The nearest approach was in 1894, when
57 were registered. Last year they happily fell to 25, but in 1896
MEASLES. they rose to the alarming figure of 62. The death rate
from measles in 1896 was 1.4 per thousand; in 1895 it
was 0.59, and in 1894 1.3.
The following is the record from 1880 :—
Bow—1880 11
1881 19
1882 23
1883 28
1884 6
1885 28
1886 27
1887 22
1888 31
1889 3
1890 46
1891 10
1892 21
1893 8
1894 57
1895 25
1896 62
From year to year in my Annual Report I have insisted upon the
reckless treatment of this disease as being primarily responsible for its
fatal character. This truth cannot too often be emphasised, and in view