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CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1900.
During the year I granted five certificates for exemption of inhabitated
house duty under the provisions of this Act. The number
of tenements covered by the certificates was 14.
VACCINATION.
The following table is a summary of the returns made by
Vaccination Officers of the district for the first six months of the
year 1901. It appears from this that out of a total of 3,166 births
only 1,372 were successfully vaccinated. This is equal to a little
over 43 per cent. of the births of the year. These figures show a
slight improvement on the percentage of successful vaccinations for
the corresponding half of the year 1900, the latter showing 40 per
cent. successfully vaccinated. For many years this neglect of
vaccination has continued, and for years I have directed attention to
it, and forcasted the occurrence of an epidemic of small-pox unless
vaccination became more general. In another part of this report,
it will be seen that the Borough was visited in July last by an
outbreak of small-pox which has continued up to the present time.
I do not expect that the disease will cease in the Borough until
vaccination is more generally and efficiently done, or until the
susceptible material, i.e. unvaccinated, is almost exhausted.