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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
Kensington and Chelsea 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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The Ministry of Health,s memorandum on vaccination against smallpox
recommends that persons likely to have to deal with cases of smallpox at
short notice should be regularly r©vaccinated at not more than yearly
intervals. During the year, 93 members of the staff of the department
were vaccinated or revaccinated.
Whooping Cough.
Sixty-nine cases were notified during the year.
Tuberculosis.
During the year, 97 new cases of tuberculosis were notified, of which
87 were respiratory and 10 were non-respiratory. In addition, 45 other
cases were reported, mainly by other borough councils, of persons moving
into this borough. These figures again show a decrease in cases.
In addition to the above new cases on the register, there were those who were removed from the register, either through moving out of the borough, dying, being cured or having lost sight of, and the final figures in the register are as follows:-
| Respiratory | Non-respiratory | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |||
| 5^0 | 351 | 38 | 56 | 985 | ||
Every effort has been made by Public Health Inspectors and Health
Visitors to visit all newly-notified cases and those transferred in or
changing address in the borough with the object of tracing the source,
preventing the spread, and removing conditions favourable to infection.
Particular attention was given to the home conditions in addition to
the disseminatioh of advice to prevent the transmission of infection to
contacts.
Incidence of tuberculosis amongst Kensington and Chelsea residents who originated from areas outside England.
Scotland and Wales
| Country of origin | Period (in years) between entry to U.K. and notification of disease | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| France | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Italy | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Spain | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Iraq | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Barbados | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Trinidad | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Jamaica | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| India | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Pakistan | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21 |