[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton UDC 1909].

  • Surbiton (Surrey, England). Urban District Council.
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[1910]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton UDC 1909]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    others—reliance being placed on isolation and sanitary measures—but when the test comes to be applied, apart from the feelings of the potential victims which may perhaps be imagined, it will certainly be found that the cost of these methods, whether more or less successful or not, will far and away exceed the preventive cost of vaccination. I have recently come across some figures that show very strikingly the spread of this movement. The Medical Officer of Health of St. Albans, in his Annual Report just issued, says that in 1906 there were vaccinated 150 infants, in 1907—139, in 1908—96, in 1909—64 ! It is also very suggestively stated that the St. Albans Urban, jointly with the St. Albans Rural and the Harpenden Urban Districts, are now in actual course of building a small pox hospital. Compare this with the practice of Germany and Japan, two admittedly very enlightened and progressive countries where vaccination and re¬ vaccination are compulsory, and there we find they have no small pox hospitals at all, have no need for them. The following Table, which is now being included by an increasing number of Medical Officers of H ealth in their Annual Reports, provides some interesting and instructive particu¬ lars.
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