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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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TABLE I.
Schick Test and Diphtheria Immunisation.
Twelve years, 1922-134.
| A | B | C | Result or Test. | Immunisation of Positives. | J | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | E | F | G | H | I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total number of individuals who attended clinic | Total tested | Total immunised without preliminary Schick test | Positive. | Negative | Not read. | Found NEGATIVE to He Schick Test after | Found NEGATIVE to Re Schick Test after | First immunised with T.A.F. and found NEGATIVE to Re Schick after | Found POSITIVE to Re Schick Test after 3 ccm T.a. M or with T.A.F. | Total Re Schick tested | Given 3 ccm T.A.M. or with T.A.F. Not retested. | Given 1 ccm not yet retested. | Failed to complete 3 inoculatne. | Inoculatns. not begun. | Inoculatns. still in progress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 ccm T.A.M. | 2 ccm 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 doses of T.A.F. | 3 ccm T.A.M. | Given further inoculation but not yet retested. | No further inoculation given. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Adult | 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 |
| 937 | 372 | 1340 | 372 | 597 | 0 | 976 | 204 | 356 | 164 | 9 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 955 | 95 | 22 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1097 | 111 | 271 | 49 | 22 | 1 | 98 | 20 | 84 | 19 | 5 | 0 |
| 2,309 | 1,712 | 597 | 1,180 | 520 | 12 | 26 | 29 | 1,050 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 13 | 1208 ‡ | 320 § | 23 | 118 † | 103 † | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1,777 | · | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
* These columns refer to 103 cases—92 were Schick positive on retesting after 3 ccm T.A.M. 11 were Schick positive on retesting after T.A.F.
t 88 of these removed from the Borough.
§ 41 of these have removed from the Borough,
ft These retests include those made up to 31st March, 1935.
Nots.—Columns E F G H give details of the total 1,208 given in Column I.
Columns I J give details of the total 1,777 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 in most cases at once to the immunisation.