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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

Tottenham 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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Table: This has naturally increased the clinical and administrative work and has made theoperation of the scheme more complicated Nevertheless, the results obtained compare quite favourably with those of the previous year, as shown in the following table.

This has naturally increased the clinical and administrative work and has made the

operation of the scheme more complicated Nevertheless, the results obtained compare quite favourably with those of the previous year, as shown in the following table.

Age at date of ImmunisationNo. of children immunisedNo of children given re inforcing injections
Diphtheria onlyCombined Diphtheria & Whooping CoughWhooping Cough onlyDiphtheria onlyCombined Diphtheria & Whooping Cough
Under One4411291214-4
One9124957-8
Two to Four147951016818
Five to Fourteen18022248722
Fifteen and over-1---
Totals 1957859165828365552
Totals 1956289211918112368

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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 4393 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 5285 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.