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DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION. During the year, 1421 children were fully
inoculated, including 830 "schools" cases. One hundred and twenty
five new cases attended the Clinic at St. Mary's Hospital.
In support of the Central Publicity Campaign organised by the.
Ministry of Health, steps were again taken to give publicity to the
facilities available in the Borough by the insertion of the
Ministry's advertisement in four local newspapers and by the exhibition
of posters at Council premises, in Air Raid Shelters, and on
shingle bins throughout the Borough. Leaflets were also distributed
by the Health Visitors and made available for the public at the
Council's offices and other establishments. In addition, local
medical practitioners were circularised asking them to support the
campaign generally and to take special steps regarding their own
patients, either by referring them to the Council's clinic or by
treating them under the scheme for immunisation by private practitioners.
At the end of the year it was estimated that 56.5% of the
child population under 5 years of age, and 65.8% between the ages of
5 and 15 years, were immunised.
VACCINATION. The latest return available is for the year 1942.
This shows that of the 1929 children whose births were registered
during that year 62.0 per cent. were successfully vaccinated, and
11.4 per cent. were exempted on production of statutory declarations
of conscientious objection. Insusceptibility, removals,
deaths, not traced etc., account for the remaining-26.6 per cent.
TUBERCULOSIS. Notification Register. New cases notified comprised
229 of pulmonary tuberculosis and 28 of non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
The number of cases on the register at the end of the year was 772,
as compared with cases at the end of the year 1942. The death
rate for pulmonary tuberculosis was 0.82 as compared with 0.84 for
the previous year, and for all forms of tuberculosis the death rate
was 0.87 as against l.04.