1064 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION I. 
New South Wales also occupies the unenviable position of 
being the only province of the Australian group in which an 
enactment for compulsory vaccination does not exist, although 
strong representations in favour of such legislation have not been 
wanting. The Colony thus constitutes a danger and a menace to 
the other colonies, of which the latter have just cause to 
complain. 
The subjoined table shows the number of persons vaccinated 
by the Government Medical Officers since 1861, together with 
the number of births, and the proportion of vaccinations to 
births. It does not include vaccinations performed by private 
medical practitioners, of which no record is kept ; but these are 
believed to be too few to materially influence the percentages 
given in the table :— 
Return showing the number of Births during the past thirty-six 
years, and the number of Vaccinations performed by Govern- 
ment Vaccinators during the same period. 
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1861 | 14,681 2,349 16°00 1880 | 28,162 5,029 17°85 
1862 | 15,454 3,155 20°44 1881 | 28,993 61,239 2112) 
1863 | 15,679 12,970 82°72 1882 | 29,702 2,188 7°36 
1864 | 16,881 10,696 63°36 1883 | 31,281 §82 2°81 
1865 | 17,283 8,567 48°41 1884 | 33,946 7,055 20°78 
1866 | 16,950 7,606 44°87 1885 | 35,043 2,230 6°36 
1867 | 18,317 6,931 37°83 1886 | 36,254 1,763 4°85 
1868 | 18,485 115237 60°79 1887 | 37,236 3,250 8°67 
1869 | 19,243 21,507 LAG 1888 | 38,525 2,186 5'67 
1870 | 19,648 7,084 36°54 1889 | 37,295 2,404 6°45 
1871 | 20,143 6,482 32°16 1890 | 38,960 LOT 5°64 
1872 | 20,250 17,565 86°74 1891 | 39,458 1,567 3°97 
1873 | 21,444 3, 152 14°69 1892 | 40,041 4,014 10°02 
1874 | 22,178 4,832 21°78 1893 | 40,342 2,547 631 
1875 | 22,528 3,111 13°80 1894 | 38,952 1,957 5:02 
1876 | 23,298 4,361 18°71 1895 | 38,715 2,437 6:29 
1877 | 23,851 16,881 70°77 1896 | 36,613 945 2°59 
1878 | 25,328 3,512 13°86 — 2 ee 
1879 | 26,933 5,569 20°67 || Total | 988,102 | 258,821 26°19 
