Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 1879.
Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District. | Number of Births returned in the Birth-List Sheets, as Registered from 1st January, to 31st December, 1879. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Smallpox. | Dead—Unvaccinated. | 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. | |
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1 | St. Mary's and | 2,847 | 2,374 | 13 | ... | 202 | 39 | 18 | 199 | 2 who were fined 20s. and costs. 2 |
2 | St. John's |
The sediment deposited by turbid water on standing, when examined by the
microscope, is almost always found to contain numbers of living and moving
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