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It was estimated that the potential number of cases eligible for
vaccination in Barking was 17,500.
The scheme for poliomyelitis vaccination formulated by the
Essex County Council provides for people to choose either their
family doctor or a clinic doctor to undertake vaccination, and at the
end of the year enquiries were still in progress with family doctors it
the area as to whether or not they wished to participate in the scheme.
Diphtheria and Whooping Cough Immunisation
The number of children receiving primary courses of immunisation
during the year was as follows: —

In the 1954 Annual Report, Dr. D. E. cu'lington gave an
account of certain investigations on which the department was
engaged in conjunction with the Wright Fleming Insitute, St. Mary'
Hospital, Paddington, on the matter of immunization against diphtheria
and whooping cough by use of a combined method.
In September, 1955, our article summarising early results of
this work was published in the " British Medical Journal." and it
seemed to arouse much interest since requests or reprints were
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