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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
Hornsey 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials
During 1955 the Medical Research Council continued the follow-up
of children who volunteered as school-leavers in 1951 to take part in
this trial. Dr. T. M. Pollock, the physician in charge of the trials
reports as follows:—
"We have now completed the figures for our last visit to Tottenham.
The young people concerned were those being seen for the third time.
Of the 397 invited, 266 attended for x-ray, i.e., 67%, and of these 73%
completed their skin tests. In addition, 33% of the 51 who failed to
attend last time had an x-ray on this occasion".