Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table til—Tuberculosis—Annual chest X.ray examination of mental defectives at senior occupation centres—Administrative County of London—1958
Division | Occupation centre E.B.—elder boys E.G.—elder girls | Average roll at time of examination | Date of examination | No. X-rayed | No. of cases of T.B. discovered | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 15 | Over 15 | |||||
Hammersmith (E.B.) | 32 | 26. 6.58 | - | 26 | - | |
N. Kensington (E.G.) | 28 | 26. 6.58 | — | 23 | — | |
3 | Archway (E.B.) | 40 | 9.12.58 | 3 | 24 | — |
Islington (E.G.) | 40 | 10.12.58 | 1 | 32 | — | |
4 | Clapton (E.G.) | 45 | 19. 3.58 | 5 | 30 | — |
Dalston (E.B.) | 49 | 19. 3.58 | 9 | 32 | — | |
6 | Greenwich (E.G.) | 26 | 11. 3.58 | — | 18 | — |
Brockley (E.G.) | 56 | 11. 3.58 | 1 | 45 | — | |
7 | Peckham (E.B.) | 49 | 21. 2.58 | 1 | 36 | — |
Totals | 365 | 20 | 266 | - |
Annual X-ray examination of staff at occupation centres, 1958.
No. of existing staff X-rayed 54 All satisfactory.
Table T12—B.C.G. vaccination under L.C.C. schemes in 1957/58
1. Day schools— | ||
No. of schools visited | 397 | |
No. of 13-year-old children at school | *40,899 | |
No. of consents | *30,365 | |
No. Mantoux tested | *27,742 | |
No. of positive reactors | *3,039=10.9 percent. | |
No. given B.C.G. | 24,651 | |
No. vaccinated June, 1954, to December, 1958 | 91,746 | |
No. of consents to retest | 4,093 | |
No. of retests | 3,768 | |
No. found negative | 58=1.5 per cent. | |
No. re-vaccinated | 52 | |
2. | ||
No. of establishments visited in 1958 | 6 | |
No. of children tested | 185 | |
No. of positive reactors | 36=19.4 per cent. | |
No. given B.C.G. | 149 | |
3. | ||
1953 | 70 | |
1954 | 82 | |
1955 (first full year after B.C.G.) | 45 | |
1956 | 38 | |
1957 | 39 | |
1958 | 38 | |
4. | ||
No. of contacts given B.C.G. vaccination in London in 195 | 8 5,136 | |
No. of contacts given B.C.G. vaccination in London | ||
since inception of scheme in 1950 | 31,155 | |
5. | ||
No. tuberculin tested | No figures available. | |
No. given B.C.G. in 1958 | 17 | |
No. given B.C.G. since inception of scheme | 68 |
* Divisional figures are shown in Table T13