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Vaccination against Poliomyelitis
During the year this scheme was extended to include children born in
1955 and 1956 in addition to the original registrations of children born
in 1947-1954 inclusive. Parents had the option of having their children
vaccinated either by their family doctors or at their local clinic and
during the year 4,393 children received a full course of two injections
and 637 children had received their first injection only by the end of the
year.
Registrations continued throughout the year and at the end of 1957
there were 5,285 children who had not received any injections.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS,
CARE AND AFTER CARE
Section 28
Recuperative Holidays
The Area health staff continued to be responsible for dealing with
applications for recuperative holidays and during 1957 253 applications
were received compared with 210 the previous year. Of these, 226 were
approved.
DOMESTIC HELP SERVICE
Section 29
The total number of cases provided with home help during the year
was 1,815. This figure shows no sign of declining and, as stated last
year, the bulk of the cases comprise the chronic sick, including aged and
infirm, who need more or less permanent help. The demands on the
organisation can be readily appreciated when it is realised that nearly
1,000 patients now require help week by week.