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Kingston upon Thames 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]

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16
VACCINATION AND SMALL POX.
No case of Small Pox has occurred this year. The
vaccination is well carried out. It may be advisable to refer
to the recent report of the Local Government Board on
Hospitals in Germany for the isolation of Small Pox. From
this article, it will be seen that so efficient is compulsory
vaccination and re-vaccination in Germany, that it is possible
"to dispense with separate Small-Pox Hospitals altogether.
It is not necessary there to provide for Small-Pox a separate
site nor separate administration. Germany is, in this way,
freed from great expense, not to speak of the suffering and inconvenience
which fall upon the English nation."

Table: Death from Small-Pox in Germany, and England and Wales:

Death from Small-Pox in Germany, and England and Wales:

Country and Date of Census.Pop.1891.1892.18931894.1895.1896.1897.1899.l899.1900.1901.1902.Total in Years.
Germany (1900)56,367,1784910815788271051528495615607
England and Wales (1901)32,520,075494311457820223541251531748524224616761

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Most of these cases in Germany were in the persons of
foreigners; Russians, Austrians, and Italians employed as
navvies; and most of the outbreaks were near the Russian
or Austrian frontiers.
Small Pox cases in Germany are in most cases removed
to a pavilion in the grounds of the General Hospital of the
town.
EPIDEMIC ENTERITIS.
Only twelve deaths from this disease this summer.
There were no long periods of drought this year, the rain
falling at frequent intervals and not in large amounts at a
time. Such climatic conditions seem unfavourable to the
spread of this disease.