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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| ATotal number of individualswho attended clinic | BTotaltested | CTotal immunised withoutpre. liminary Schick test | Result of Test. D | EFound NEGATIVE to He Schick Test after | Immunisation of Positives. | HFound POSITIVE to Re Schick Test after 3 ccm T.A. M or with T.A.F. | TotalRe Schick tested | Given 3 ccm T.A. M. or with T.A.F. Notretested. | Given 1 ccm not yet retested. | JFailed to complete 3inoculatns. | Inoculatns. not begun. | Inoculatns-still in progress. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FFound NEGATIVE to Re Schick Test after | GFirst immunised with T.A.F. and found NEGATIVE to Re Schick after | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Positive. | Nega-tive | Not read. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 ccm T.A.M. | 2 com T. A.M. | 3 ccm T. A.M. or with T.A.F. | 4 ccm T. A.M. | 5 ccm T. A.M. | 6 ccm T.A.M. | 8 ccm T.A.M. | Further (losis of T.A.F. | 3 ccm T.A.M. | Given further inoculation but not yet retested. | No furtherinoculation given. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chil-dren ' | Ad- ults | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | c | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A | C | A |
| 1383 | 175 | 1160 | 175 | 288 | 0 | 80 | 267 | 94 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 621 | 20 | 21 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 740 | 27 | 204 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 80 | 12 | 78 | 17 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1,558 | 1,335 | 223 | 962 | 361 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 641 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 767†† | 212 § | 18 | 92 | 95 † | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1,185
* These columns refer to 83 cases—72 were Schick positive on retesting after 3 ccm T. A.M. 11 were Schick positive on retesting after T.A.F.
t 79 of these removed from the Borough.
§ 20 of these have removed from the Borough.
†† These retests includ those made up to 28th February, 1931.
Note.—Columns E F G H give details of the total 767 given in Column I.
Columns I J give details of the total 1,185 positives given in Column CD.
We have not altered the routine procedure, except that owing to the increased confidence of the public in the measure we no longer find it
necessary to test children under 5 years of age, but proceed at once to the immunisation.