Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE 19
VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
Completed Primary Courses of Immunisation by end of 1966 of Children born in 1964
Immunisation against | No. of Children Immunised (Enfield) | Acceptance Rate % | |
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Enfield | England & Wales | ||
Diphtheria | 3,798 | 91.4 | 76 |
Whooping Cough | 3,567 | 85.8 | 74 |
Tetanus | 3,790 | 91.2 | 76 |
Poliomyelitis | 3,700 | 89.1 | 72 |
Smallpox | 2,280 | 54.9 | 38 |
Men | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | |||||||||
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Women | Children | Total | Men | Women | Children | Total | |||||
1,156 | 852 | 80 | 2,088 | 79 | 122 | 11 | 212 | ||||
2. Number of cases of respiratory tuberculosis under Section 1 above, new to the clinic (but excluding transfers from other clinics) during the year ended 31st December, 1966. | |||||||||||
Group I | 27 | 30 | 20 | 77 | 8 | 4 | — | 12 | |||
Group II | 29 | 21 | — | 50 | 11 | 2 | — | 13 | |||
Group III | — | 2 | — | 2 | 7 | — | — | 7 | |||
53 | 20 | 129 | 26 | 6 | — | 32 | |||||
3. Number of cases of non-respiratory tuberculosis included in 1 above, new to the clinic (but excluding transfers from other clinics) during the year ended 31st December, 1966. | |||||||||||
2 | 12 | 2 | 16 | ||||||||
4. Number of cases included in 1 above whose broncho-pulmonary secretion | |||||||||||
was positive during the year | 31. | ||||||||||
* The three sub-divisions of new respiratory cases are estimated as follows from the standard P.A. film: | |||||||||||
Group I — Total area of disease not exceeding one third of one lung in aggregate. | |||||||||||
Group 11 — Total area of disease not exceeding two thirds of one lung in aggregate. | |||||||||||
Group III — Total area of disease exceeding (including miliary disease) two thirds of one lung in aggregate. | |||||||||||
Tuberculous pleural effusions, pleural thickening without obvious lung involvement and enlarged hilar glands are placed in Group I. |