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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
Bethnal Green 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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| (9) Immunisation. | |
| No. of children who completed a full course of primary immunisation at ad hoc clinics. | |
| Under 5 years of age | 623 |
| 5—14 years of age | 236 |
| No of children who were given a secondary or re-inforcing injection | 903 |
| (10) Vaccination. | |
| No. of children successfully vaccinated | 306 |
| No. found to be insusceptible to vaccination | Nil |
(c) Supply of Milk Foods, etc.
Milk foods, etc., were distributed during the year which included
National Dried Milk, Ostermilk, Cow and Gate, Humanised
Trufood, National Milk Cocoa and concentrated orange juice.
4. Notification of Births.
Arrangements continued in operation during the year whereby
the London County Council furnished to the Borough Council a
weekly return of births (including stillbirths) notified to them as the
Local Health Authority under the National Health Service Act, 1946.
During the year 995 live births (514 male and 481 female) were
notified and in addition there were 16 stillbirths (10 male and 6
female).
These figures represent corrected totals after the addition of
inward transfers and the deletion of outward transfers.