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HOME NURSING
This service, together with approximately half of the domiciliary
midwifery service, is still administered from the County Training
Home at Leytonstone.
VSCCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
Smallpox Vaccination
The number of primary vaccinations carried out in 1957 was
21 in infants under one year, 72 in those over one year. This means
that just under 25% of infants are being vaccinated during the first
year of life.
Pliomyelitis Vaccination
During 1956 when vaccination was offered to children born in
1947 to 1954, inclusive, some 2,296 consents were received but at the
beginning of 1957 over 2,000 children still remained to be vaccinated.
The first delivery very of vaccine in 1957 was not received until
March but it wa he largest consignment received since the scheme
first began. It was, however, still only sufficient to vaccinate 173
children.
Early in the summer, the Ministry of Health extended the scheme
to include children born in 1955/56 and asked for a second oppor-
tunity to be giver to those born in the original age groups. Arising
from this, consents for a further 1,500 children were received. By the
end of June a total of some 1,200 had been vaccinated with British
type vaccine. The Government, in order to speed up its vaccination
programme and in view of the continued shortage of vaccine manu-
factured in Britain, entered into negotiations with Canada and the
United States for the purchase of vaccine manufactured in North
America. In November, the Minister of Health announced that the
scheme was to widened still further and would include all children
aged from 6 months to 15 years and all expectant mothers.
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