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VACCINATION.
It has been the practice of the Ministry of Health to require
the Vaccination Districts of the Borough to coincide with the
Registration Districts for Births and Deaths and, consequent upon
the alteration of the number of Registration Districts from four to
three, to which reference is made on page 14 of this Report, it
became necessary to make a similar reduction in the number of
Vaccination Districts and to terminate the contract existing between
the Council and one of the Public Vaccinators.
The three districts into which the Borough is now divided for
vaccination purposes are Hackney North, Hackney South-West. and
Hackney South-East, and the boundaries of these are co-terminous
with and consist of the Electoral Wards of the Borough, as follows:—
Hackney North Stamford Hill, Downs and
West Hackney Wards.
Hackney South-West Hackney, Kingsland and
South Hackney Wards.
Hackney South-East Clapton Park and Homerton
Wards.
Towards the end of the year Dr. Montague Smith and Dr. A. G.
'Southcombe, the Public Vaccinators for the Hackney North and
Hackney South-East Vaccination Districts, found it necessary to
relinquish their appointments. The Committee expressed their
sorrow that the duties required by his extensive practice rendered
it impossible for Dr. Montague Smith to continue with the vaccination
work he had so conscientiously performed.