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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| a Total number of individuals who attended clinic | b Total tested | c Total immunised without preliminary Schick test | Result of Test d | E Found NEGATIVE to He Schick Test after | Immunisation of Positives | j | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f Found NEGATIVE to Be Schick Test after | G First immunised with T A. F. and found NEGATIVE to lie Schick after | h Found POSITIVE to Re Schick Test after 2 ccm T. A. M. or with T.A.F. | I Total Re Schick tested | Given 3 ccm T.A.M. or with T.A.F. Not retested. | Given 1 ceem not yet retested. | Failed to complete 3 inoculatns. | Inoculatns. not begun. | Inoculatns. still in progress | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Positive. | Negative | Not read. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 cem T.A.M. | 2 cem T. A.M. | 3 cem T.A.M. or with T.A.F. | 4 cem T.A.M. | 5 cem T.A.M. | 6 cem T.A.M. | 8 cem T.A.M. | Further doses of T.A.F. | 3 cem T.A.M. | Given further inoculation but not yet retested. | No further inoculation given. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Adults | 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 | C | a | C | a |
| 2057 | 420 | 1400 | 417 | 658 | 2 | 1007 | 226 | 384 | 188 | 9 | 3 | 25 | 2 | 28 | 3 | 1026 | 111 | 22 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1169 | 131 | 274 | 59 | 22 | 2 | 100 | 25 | 90 | 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 2,477 | 1,817 | 660 | 1,233 | 572 | 12 | 27 | 31 | 1,137 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 15 | 1300 †† | 333 § | 24 | 125 † | 110† | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1,893
* These columns refer to 105 cases—92 were Schick positive on retesting after 3 cem T. A.M. 13 were Schick positive on retesting after T. A.F.
† 91 of these removed from the Borough.
§ 52 of these have removed from the Borough.
†† These retests include those made up to 11th March, 1936.
Note.—Columns e f g h give details of the total 1,300 given in Column i.
Columns I J give details of the total 1,893 positives given in Column C D
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 in most cases at once to the immunisation.
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