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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE VII.
Return respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered during the year 1878.
| Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officers' Districts. | Number of Births returned in the Birth-List Sheets, as Registered from 1st January, to 31st December, 1877. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Small Pox. | Dead—Un-Vaccinated. | Postponed by Medical Certificate. | Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprized. | Removal to Places unknown, or which cannot be reached and cases not having been found. | Prosecutions. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Mary's and St. John's, | 2,896 | 2,387 | 10 | ... | 236 | 95 | 12 | 165 | 1, who was fined 20s. and costs. |
| 2 | 1 |
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