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About 55% of this work had been done at Health Clinics
and 45% by General Practitioners. During the year the age
limits were widened and all children born between 1947
and 1956 became eligible.
It is hoped that early in 1958 a supply of Canadian
vaccine will be available to us. This will be tested both
in Canada and in Britain to the same standards as British
vaccine and should considerably help in meeting the great
demand in Ealing for vaccination against Poliomyelitis.
Expectant mothers will be offered vaccination as soon as
this vaccine becomes available and by the Summer of 1958
it is hoped that all children registered will have been
given the opportunity for vaccination.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA,
There were 77 notifications, 7 of these occurred in
general practice and the remainder in hospitals.
SCARLET FEVER.
95 notifications were received, 61 less than in 1956.
All were of a mild character.
SMALLPOX.
There were no cases notified during the year.
There was, however, an outbreak during the summer in
the Greater London area which resulted in three deaths,
cases occuring in Boroughs neighbouring Ealing. It is
probable that the infection was initially brought into
the country by a man flying from West Africa. The rapidity
of air travel today makes such occurrences an ever present
possibility, against which vaccination is the surest protection.
The most satisfactory arrangement is that infants
should be vaccinated during their first year of life. In
1957 1,518 children in their first year were vaccinated
in Ealing which represents approximately 57%.
During the outbreak vaccination was offered to ambulance
and nursing staff.
TUBERCULOSIS.
There were 113 pulmonary notifications received, 80
males and 33 females, compared with 73 males and 61 females
in the previous year.
Non-pulmonary cases consisted of 6 males and 9 females.