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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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Total primary
courses completed
Total reinforcing
doses
1966
1965
1966
1965
At Council clinics -
Salk 13 33 4 15
Sabin 2,812 3,359 1,717 1,432
By general practitioners -
Salk 22 136 9 42
Sabin 509 541 136 151
TOTAL: 3,356 4,069 1,581 1,925
Diphtheria Immunisation.
The following table shows some improvement in the number of injections given during the year compared with I965. No cases of the disease have occurred, but the degree of protection in the community is still unsatisfactorily low:-
| Total primary courses completed | Total reinforcing doses | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1965 | 1966 | 1965 | |
| At Council clinics | 2,605 | 2,447 | 3,678 | 3,451 |
| By general practitioners | 530 | 497 | 473 | 516 |
| TOTAL: | 3,135 | 2,944 | 4,151 | 3,967 |
Whooping Cough Immunisation.
The following table shows there to have been some improvement in 1966 in the numbers protected, but the immunity level is still not sufficiently high, and cases of the disease are still occurring:-
| Total primary courses completed | Total reinforcing doses | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1965 | 1966 | 1965 | |
| At Council clinics | 1,989 | 1,884 | 1,391 | 1,333 |
| By general practitioners | 503 | 473 | 354 | 430 |
| TOTAL: | 2,492 | 2,357 | 1,745 | 1,763 |
Tetanus Immunisation.
The 1966 figures show an increase over 1965, as follows:-