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Infective Diseases. 17
The total number of cases, less Tuberculosis and Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, was 3,762 compared with 3,991 in 1930, 5,246 in
1929, 4,149 in 1928, and 4,280 in 1927. The increase, compared
with 1930, is due to the increase in the number of cases of Whooping
Cough.
Small-pox.
During the year four cases of Small-pox occurred, compared
with nine cases in 1930. There were no deaths.
Two of the patients had never been vaccinated, one of them,
an adult aged 57 years was vaccinated in infancy, and the other
case was a man who was exposed to infection and vaccinated too
late to protect him against an attack of the disease. He had not
been vaccinated previously.
Vaccination.
Table XII. is taken from the official returns of the Vaccination
Officers for the year 1930. It shows the number of
children successfully vaccinated for the whole Borough, as well
as for the separate sub-districts.
The percentage of children vaccinated to total births was
54.4 in Clapham, 56.3; in Putney, 66.4; in Balham, 49.6;
in Streatham, 51.0; in Tooting, 40.0; in Southfield, 64.2; and
in Springfield 55.9. This percentage is a little higher than that
recorded last year.