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It will be appreciated that it is not strictly correct to compare the
number of immunisations with the number of births in a particular
year as this takes no account of removals out of and into the Area,
but as no reliable up to date figures of child population of these ages
are available, these have been used to enable some comparison of one
year with another.
It will be seen that the new policy for immunising infants under 1
has had the effect of increasing the percentage of immunised children
born in 1953 as against preceding years. Reference to children born
during 1954 has been excluded as it was only possible for a small proportion
to have been immunised by the end of the year.
Boosting Immunisation in School Children
The scheme to secure that all children receive a boosting injection
against diphtheria during their first year at school which was introduced
at the same time as the arrangements for dealing with children under
1, has had satisfactory results as can be seen by the following table:—
Boosting Immunisation
1952 1953 1954
Age 4 351 395 556
Age 5 569 1,372 1,291
920
1,767
1,847
The increase has been achieved in spite of a considerable fall in the
birth rate in the years 1947 to 1950.
The opportunity is taken when doctors visit the schools to give
boosting injections, to give primary immunisations to any unimmunised
child whose parents agree.
Summary
The following table shows the total number of immunisations of all
age groups carried out during 1954:—