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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
Holborn 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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TABLE iii.
HOLBORN MUNICIPAL INFANT WELFARE CENTRE.
Schick Test and Diphtheria Immunisation.
| a Total TESTED. | Result op Test. b | c | Immunisation of POSITIVES. | F | g | If | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d | E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Found NEGATIVE to Re Schick Test after | Found NEGATIVE to Re Schick Test after | First immunised with T A. F. and found NEGATIVE to Re Schick after | Found POSITIVE to Re Schick Test after 3 ccm T.A.T. or T.A.F. | Total Re Schick Tested | Given 3 ccm T.A.T. or T.A.F. Not Retested. | Given 1 ccm not yet lte-tested. | Failed to complete 3 inoculatns. | Inoculatns. not begun. | Inoculatns. still in progress. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Negative. | [Positive. | Not read. | 1 ccm T.A.T. | 2 ccni T.A.T. | 3 ccm T.A.T. or T.A.F. | 4 ccm T.A.T. | 5 ccm T.A.T. | 6 ccm T.A.T. | 8 ccm T.A.T | Further doses of T.A.F. | 3 ccm TAT. | Given further inoculation but not yet Retested. | No further inoculation given. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Ad- ! llltS | c | A | C | A | C | A | C | a | C | A | c | A | c | A | C | A | c | A | C | A | c | A | C | A | c | A | c | A | C | A | c | A | C | A | C | A | c | A | C | A |
| 1182 | 83 | 242 | 46 | 931 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 496 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 60 5 | 13 | 166 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 75 | 5 | 73 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 1,265 ++++ | 288 | 965 +++ | 12 | 17 | 17 | 504 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 11 | 619 ++ | 166+ | 16 | 80 | 83 9 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
These columns refer to 81 cases -70 were Schick positive on retesting after 3 ccm T.A.T. 11 were Schick positive on retesting after T.A.F,
t 51 of these removed from the Borough.
8 15 of these have removed from the Borough.
++ These retests include those made up to 3rd April, 1329.
+++ 21 of these positives in 1927 were given T.A.F. instead of T.A.T. (see page 69).
++++ Includes 87 children who were considered positive without being tested.
NotE.—Columms C D E F give details of the total 619 given in Column G.
Columns G H give details of the total 965 positives given in Column B.
We have not altered the routine procedure, except that owing to the increased confidence of the public in the measure we no longer find it
necessary to test children under 5 years of age, but proceed at once to the immunisation.