View report page

18
Under 5 yrs. 5—15 yrs.
Estimated proportion of Children Immunised at 31.12.52 55.4% 96.8%
Total Attendance at all Clinics 11,517
Sessions Held 365
Average Attendance 31.5
Number of Children who received Full Course of Immunising
Injections :—
Under 5 years 2,826
5—15 years 118
Number of children who were Primary Schick Tested with negative result
and therefore did not require immunisation —
Number of children re-tested with a negative result 490
Number of children Post Schick Tested with a negative result 1,889
Boosting Injections 1,261
Influenza and Pneumonia
It will have been noted from the Table on page 11 at the beginning of this
Section, that the notification of acute primary and influenzal pneumonia during the
year, at 246, were approximately double those of the previous year. This was very
largely contributed to by the great increase which occurred at the beginning of
December. In common with the rest of London, there was heavy fog from the 5th
to 8th December inclusive, and there can be little doubt that the presence of this
fog is very closely connected with the great increase both in the number of deaths
due to respiratory infections, as shown in the Table below, and also in the number
of notifications received.
Respiratory Diseases Deaths and Notifications
November: December:
15 22 29 6 13 20 27
Deaths—
Bronchitis 1 1 2 9 60 27 11
Pneumonia 1 2 3 5 16 11 9
Other forms 15 11
Notifications of :
Acute Primary Pneumonia and
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 7 13 2 11 21 11 13
Deaths and Notifications in age groups for
Week ending 13th December, 1952
Total 0— 1— 2— 5— 15— 25— 35— 45— 55— 65— 75 +
Deaths—
Bronchitis 60 1 — — — — 1 — 4 13 21 20
Pneumonia 16 — — — — — — — 1 3 111
Other forms 5 — — — — — — — 1 1 1 2
Notifications of :
Acute Primary
Pneumonia
and Acute
Influenzal
Pneumonia 21 — 1 2 1 — 1 — — 5 4 7
It will be noted from the Tables that the majority of those affected during the
week ended 13th December were elderly persons, but whilst elderly persons may
succumb more easily, there can be no doubt that a very considerable amount of illness