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Reinforcing injections:—
Council clinics and schools 5,952
General practitioners 1,493
Total 7,445
Measles vaccination—cases completed:—
Council clinics and schools
General practitioners 19
Total 19
Poliomyelitis vaccination—cases completed:—
Primary courses:—
Council clinics and schools 5,805
General practitioners 919
Total 6,724
Reinforcing doses:—
Council clinics and schools 6,255
General practitioners 1,185
Total 7,440
Recuperative Holidays
The following were sent away during the year under the Council's
scheme for providing holidays for adults and children needing
rest, good food and fresh air:—
Expectant and nursing mothers 6
Other adults 170
Children under five years, not attending school 47
School-children, including nursery school-children 173
Chiropody
The Council provides some 45 sessions weekly at foot clinics
where treatment is provided for old people, expectant and nursing
mothers, school-children and the physically handicapped. In
addition, treatment is given in the surgeries of private chiropodists
acting on behalf of the Council. Where patients are able to walk
but unable to reach the clinic, arrangements are made for them
to be provided with ambulance transport. Domiciliary treatment
is arranged for housebound patients.
Number of sessions held:—
(a) at clinics 2,197
(b) at private surgeries 88
(c) at old people's centres 36
Number of patients seen for first time in 1967:—
(a) at clinics 2,874
(b) at private surgeries 242
(c) in their own homes 1,372