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B.C.G. VACCINATION FOR 13-YEAR OLD CHILDREN.
A medical officer, together with a clerical assistant, visited 8 (12)
schools throughout the year.
1,018 (l,86l) children were found eligible for B.C.G. vaccination.
The parents of 958 (1,458) children gave their consent, out of this number
694 (1,119) were skin-tested and read. Of these, 630 (1,019) children
were given B.C.G. vaccination. The remaining 64 (98) were found to be
positive reactors.
It must be stated that the B.C.G. vaccination programme was not
completed because of staff shortage and because of heavy commitments in
connection with the measles immunisation.
INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
The following table shows the number of cases of infectious illness
reported from the schools by head teachers during 1968:-
Disease
Total
Chicken-pox
302
Dysentery
36
Diarrhoea
Enteritis
Food poisoning
2
German measles
251
Influenza
17
Impetigo
12
Jaundice
4
Measles
95
Mumps
60
Ophthalmia
5
Conjunctivitis
Pnemonia
2
Pulmonary tuberculosis
1
Ringworm (scalp)
1
Ringworm (body)
2
Scabies
5
Scarlet fever
17
Sore throat
2
Tonsillitis
61
Typhoid fever
1
Whooping cough
15
Virus infection with rash
1
Glandular fever
1