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VACCINATION.
It is unfortunate that the neglect of vaccination
is on the increase in the Parish. Last year the total
number of children not successfully vaccinated or
otherwise satisfactorily accounted for, amounted to 14.7
per cent. of the children born, a percentage higher
than that of any year since 1881, with the exception
of 1891, when the percentage was 17.7 (see Table 5).
The 75 "conscientious objectors" have been included
among the "remaining, etc,." as they are unvaccinated
TABLE 5.
Vaccination Returns 1881-1898.
Year.
Births.
Successfully
vaccinated.
Insusceptible
of vaccination.
Had
Small-pox.
Died
unvaccinated.
Vaccination
postponed.
Remaining
(not traced,&c.,
&c.)*
Children not
accounted for
(includingpostponed
cases)
% of births.
1881
2,845
2,415
8
...
203
7
212
7.7
1882
2,897
2,411
8
...
212
17
249
9.2
1883
2,873
2,381
7
...
231
16
238
8.8
1884
2,955
2,460
13
...
239
43
200
8.2
1885
3,019
2,489
12
...
252
38
228
8.8
1886
2,923
2,409
7
...
213
26
268
10.1
1887
2,915
2,440
11
•••
220
40
204
8.4
1888
2,855
2,870
2,293
22
...
216
38
286
11.3
1889
2,275
7
•••
223
68
297
12.7
1890
2,845
2,255
2,172
7
•••
254
29
300
11.6
1891
2,968
2,957
16
•••
254
32
494
17.7
1892
2,374
7
...
202
16
358
12.6
1893
3,015
2,421
27
...
265
10
292
10.0
1894
2,853
2,369
24
...
203
21
236
8.2
1896
2,986
2,378
24
...
302
21
261
8.8
1896
3,042
2,443
28
...
286
11
274
9.0
1897
3,039
2,461
10
...
262
31
275
10.0
1898
2,966
2,223
16
...
290
34
403+
14.7
January to
June, 1899
1,435
1,022
12
...
139
71
191 ‡
18.2
* Gone away, false addrsses, "unaccounted for."
+ Including 75 exempted under Act. ‡ Including 16 exempted under Act.