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Medical Officer of Health visited all cases reported to him
where persons refused to be vaccinated; and by persuasion,
or pointing out the penalties of the law, succeeded in inducing
them to have vaccination performed by the District
Vaccinators.
The total number of vaccinations is shown in Table VI.,
from which it will be seen there were 6,592 successful vaccinations,
or re-vaccinations performed by the ten District
Medical Officers during the year, of which 800 were done in
the first quarter, 3,750 in the second quarter, 1,365 in the
third quarter, and 677 in the fourth quarter of the year. The
vaccinations corresponded almost exactly with the number of
births, and must be considered satisfactory, when it is
remembered that this statement only comprises those per.
formed by the District Vaccinators, and is irrespective of the
large number performed by the rest of the medical profession,
and seven of those vaccinated at Public Institutions.
Table VII. gives the number of cases of Small Pox
under the care of the District Medical Officers during each
quarter of the year, also the total number of removals into
the Small Pox Hospital during the year, and into the Small
Pox Wards of the Workhouse during the seven months they
were opened to receive patients. By the kindness of
Mr. Marson, Surgeon to the Small Pox Hospital, the Medical
Officer of Health has ascertained that 1,537 cases of Small
Pox were admitted during the year into that Institution, of
which 290 died; the persons admitted from Lambeth were 58,
of whom 13 died. Including then the 13 deaths in the Small
Pox Hospital, from Lambeth, with the 63 occurring in the
parish (nearly half of which were unvaccinated), the deathrate
from Small Pox would have been about 50 per cent