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shortly before the visits to schools in the division by the Council's B.C.G. vaccination
unit and will explain to adult audiences why B.C.G. vaccination is advisable and howit
is done in London.
Preventive
measures
X-ray examinations—Preventive measures arranged by the Council include the chest
X-ray of (i) all newly appointed teaching and other staff who are likely, through their
work, to be in close and frequent contact with children;
(ii) staff and senior pupils at the Council's occupation centres for mentally deficient
persons (Table T.13 page 36);
(iii) new residents over 15 years of age entering the Council's homeless families'
units;
(iv) positive reactors discovered among thirteen-year-old children tuberculin
tested with a view to B.C.G. vaccination.
Epidemiological investigations are made of the school or other workplace contacts
of cases of tuberculosis notified among the children, staff or residents in the Council's
establishments. A summary of the findings of such investigations is given in Table T.9
(page 32).
TUBERCULOSIS
MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY 1935-1956
DEATHS NOTIFICATIONS
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