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PROPHYLAXIS
Immunisation against the following diseases was offered at health centres and
schools—Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Poliomyelitis, Smallpox and
Tuberculosis.
Children between the ages of 2 months and 5 years were offered immunisation at
health centres and from 5-12 years in schools. Special efforts were made during
1966 to obtain wider immunisation cover for children under 15 years and extra
sessions were held at most schools. Adults between the ages of 15 and 40 years were
offered immunisation against poliomyelitis. B.C.G. vaccination against tuberculosis
was offered to all children in schools in their fourteenth year.
The existing arrangements whereby medical practitioners in the borough are
supplied, free of cost, with poliomyelitis vaccine for persons under the age of 40,
and diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus vaccine, has continued.
Medical practitioners are able to obtain supplies of smallpox vaccine lymph from
the Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, N.W.9 (COL 7041). Also
available from this address are supplies of anthrax vaccine.
The Council paid a fee of 5s. for each record of a completed course of immunisation,
provided the record was received within three months of the completion of the
course.
Vaccination against Yellow Fever, Cholera, Enteric Fever and Typhus is available
at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 4 St. Pancras Way, N.1 (Tel: EUS 4411,
Ext. 137). Yellow Fever vaccination is also available at the Medical Department,
Unilever House, Blackfriars, E.C.4 (Tel: KEN. 7474, Ext. 2841), and at 53 Cumberland
Place, W.1 (Tel. AMB. 6456). At all centres patients are seen by appointment
only, and immunisation is free of charge.