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Surbiton 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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Vaccination .—At my request the Vaccination Officer has supplied me with an official statement of the Vaccination Returns for 1919, in this district, as set out in the following Table :—
| Total Births Registered | 281 |
| Successfully vaccinated | 158 |
| Certificates of objection granted | 76 |
| Deaths, removals and not accounted for | 22 |
| Postponements and not yet legally due | 25 |
| Percentage of successful vaccinations to Births | 56.2 |
fortunately no cases of small-pox have
occurred in this district, yet almost week by week
during the last year and a half cases have been
notified in London and many of the seaport
towns and occasionally have given reason for
anxiety, but the measures adopted—immediate
removal on diagnosis, vaccination of all contacts,
isolation of all inmates of a house when and where
considered necessary, thorough disinfection, etc.,
have so far kept in check the spreading of the
disease. At the time of writing these cases are
still occurring and the danger has not yet passed.
Small-pox is prevalent in many parts of the
continent, and with the increase of facilities for
travel and with the resumption of trade, we must
expect the possibilities for the introduction of
infection to continue. But while reaping the
benefit of the extensive vaccination of the troops
and of the others whose duty called them abroad,
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